High House is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. A Medieval House. 4 related planning applications.
High House
- WRENN ID
- outer-hall-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- High House, Old Heath Road, Southminster, CM3 6EW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 931 989
- Coordinates
- 51.65599, 0.79108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House is a house of circa 1450, with significant alterations and additions dating from the 18th, 19th, and later centuries. It is timber framed and clad in weatherboarding, with red plain tile roofs; the roof of the left-hand crosswing is hipped. There are chimney stacks on both sides. The facade has a 1:1:2 window arrangement, featuring vertically sliding sash windows with glazing bars, with the crosswing windows being tripartite. A small-paned French door is located on the right. The front door is panelled with a moulded surround, topped by a moulded and dentilled open pediment supported by brackets.
The original build comprised two bays and retains a heavy moulded bridging joist with run-out stops and jowled storey posts. Two three-board doors with hinges are also original features. A restored red brick fireplace has a chamfered mantel beam. Interior features include stick balusters to the staircase, a fine moulded and dentilled fire surround with patera to the right and left, moulded dados, skirtings, architraves, doors, and shutters. A bedroom has a moulded cast iron basket grate fireplace, and an alcove cupboard. Another bedroom features a cast iron fire surround from the 19th century.
Local climate
High House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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