White Oaks is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1987. House.
White Oaks
- WRENN ID
- solemn-steeple-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Oaks, 10, High Street, Tollesbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 955 104
- Coordinates
- 51.75859, 0.83233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Oaks is a house that has been converted into a bakery, hairdressing salon, and residence. It dates from the 17th century and was extended in the 19th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. It has three bays facing south, with a three-bay crosswing to the right that extends to the rear and includes an internal stack at the junction. There is a single-storey bakery extension at the rear of the left end, which features a large 19th-century baker's oven and a chimney, both roofed with red clay pantiles. A lean-to extension between the rear wings creates a catslide with the main roof, and there is a small 20th-century extension at the rear of the right wing.
The building is two storeys with attics. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century splayed shop window and two 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has three 20th-century casement windows and two 20th-century half-glazed doors. A modillioned cornice runs below the eaves, and a Royal Exchange firemark is attached to the front elevation below the eaves. The structure features jowled posts, chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists with a vertical section. Above the right first-floor room, there is a chamfered transverse beam with enriched lamb's tongue stops, supported by elaborately carved projections with serrated lower edges, which is an unusual feature for a first-floor setting. The original newel stair leads to the attic, and the building has clasped purlin roofs. Notably, the coal-fired oven, which was still in regular use as of May 1985, is a rare feature.
Local climate
White Oaks sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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