Oakwood House and Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House. 5 related planning applications.
Oakwood House and Attached Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-truss-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oakwood House and Attached Garden Wall, 2, High Street, CM9 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 848 069
- Coordinates
- 51.73121, 0.67495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakwood House, now a gallery, offices and flat, dates from the early 19th century, with remnants of an earlier building. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a gambrel roof covered in plain tiles, featuring a half-hipped end. The building is two storeys with an attic and cellar, and includes a matching late 19th-century bay window on the south-west end. The front elevation has a four-window range, with three hipped dormers featuring moulded cornices and 20th-century asymmetrical 12-pane sash windows. There is an eaves cornice of bold ogee modillions. Three two-storey canted bay windows feature tripartite small-paned sash windows with timber keystones. The first floor has a flush sash window with similar details, while the ground floor has a pedimented Gibbs surround to the entrance, situated between two original bay windows, and a door of six raised-and-fielded panels. A flight of steps leads to the entrance, incorporating elegant wrought-iron handrails with boot scrapers. Two cellar lights are set into the plinth. The rear elevation includes two gabled two-storey extensions with plain tiles and a mixture of windows, including sash windows.
The interior of the symmetrical early 19th-century section contains a central hall with an elliptical arch and keystone leading to the right, which is now glazed. A Chinese-Chippendale staircase is located in a well to the rear, with an elliptical arch at the head of the first-floor landing. Two original rooms on the first floor retain simple marble fireplace surrounds and cast-iron grates. Many early 19th-century doors and architraves remain, as does a cupboard with cockspur hinges.
A garden wall to the rear includes a stone plaque inscribed with the letters 'PW'.
Local climate
Oakwood House and Attached Garden Wall 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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