Middleton Homes for the Blind is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. Home for the blind, terraced houses. 6 related planning applications.

Middleton Homes for the Blind

WRENN ID
keen-arch-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maldon
Constituency
Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
Country
England
Type
Home for the blind, terraced houses
Address
Middleton Homes for the Blind, 48, Wantz Road, CM9 5DE
OS grid reference
TL 852 067
Coordinates
51.72886, 0.68173
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A terrace of five houses, dating from the early 19th century, now used as homes for the blind. The houses are built of grey Gault brick, with a slate gambrel roof that is hipped on the north-east corner, and have five ridgeline stacks. The southernmost house has a double-fronted design.

The two-storey houses include an attic level and have a ten-window range. Behind a parapet with stone coping are five lean-to dormers, each containing a six-pane sash window. A moulded stucco cornice runs below the parapet and returns along the north flank. The southernmost house has three 12-pane sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a former central doorway, now replaced with a small-paned sash window. To the south of this doorway is a canted bay window with a sash window containing two vertical glazing bars; to the other side of the door is a similar 12-pane sash. The rest of the facade has semicircular-headed doorways alternating with sash windows; the first floor has four blind window recesses alternating with sashes. All but one of the door openings have been filled with sash windows. The exception has a projecting Ionic porch with columns, a semicircular fanlight, and a door with a single raised-and-fielded panel. The rear elevation features seven lean-to dormers, each with a six-pane sash window, along with five 12-pane and one 9-pane sashes on the first floor. The ground floor is obscured by 20th-century slate-roofed extensions that project out at right angles. The interior remains uninspected.

Local climate

Middleton Homes for the Blind 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 — 3 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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