1, 3 and 3a, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1971. Shops. 4 related planning applications.
1, 3 and 3a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- muffled-dormer-yew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1971
- Type
- Shops
- Address
- 1, 3 and 3a, High Street, CM9 7PB
- OS grid reference
- TL 848 070
- Coordinates
- 51.73144, 0.67512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three shops with flats above, dating back to the mid-14th century, with subsequent alterations in the 15th and early 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a plain tile roof, featuring a gable on the north-east side and a half-hipped slope on the south-west. It forms an L-shaped plan.
The exterior presents a rendered timber parapet and four sash windows on the first floor, each with flush moulded surrounds, margin glazing, a plain frieze and cornice. The ground floor houses three shop fronts: the one at No.1 is recessed with a 20th-century bow window, No.3 has a flat-roofed canted bay with plain glass, and No.3A has a plain 20th-century shop front with two large panes, along with three plain 20th-century entrance doors. Two small stacks are visible against the southwest wall, one truncated, and one against the northeast wall, also truncated. A two-story extension of rendered timber-framing with a linked, plain tile gabled roof is located at the rear. This extension has 20th-century casement windows and a late 16th-century stack projecting through the rear roof, with an underbuilt jetty on the northeast face.
The interior of the main block reveals a mid-14th century house comprising a three-bay high-end cross-wing, a two-bay low-end cross-wing, and remnants of a narrow, single-bay open hall. The high-end wing features an internal jetty in the centre bay, forming a bench recess. The front bay was partitioned off, likely as a contemporary shop. The low-end cross-wing originally included a cross-passage with a spered opening to the hall; the two halves of the spere beam remain, one now forming a partition. The frame exhibits wide stud spacing, arched wall bracing, and splayed scarf joists with under-squinted abutments. A crown-post roof survives, particularly over the high-end cross-wing, incorporating jowled posts and longitudinal curved braces, along with reused soot-blackened hall rafters. A roof plate of the hall survives, probably in situ, in the front wall with a large concave chamfer, suggesting the removal of jettied first floors rather than underbuilding. A later extension, probably from the 17th century, is found at the northeast end. A 20th-century flat-roofed extension is also present at the rear, along with a two-story 15th-century extension that was formerly jettied on the northeast side. This extension has massive "Samson" posts with knee braces to bridging joists and spine beams. The first floor was open-framed to the main range, originally with large arch braces to cambered tie beams. This level formerly contained one large chamber and one small chamber.
Local climate
1, 3 and 3a, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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