13 and 15, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. A Medieval House. 5 related planning applications.
13 and 15, London Road
- WRENN ID
- swift-chimney-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 13 and 15, London Road, CM9 6HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 847 070
- Coordinates
- 51.73151, 0.67372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three identical houses, now two dwellings, were originally built in the 15th century and altered in the 17th century, with 20th-century extensions added later. The houses are timber-framed and rendered, with 20th-century pargeting and a continuous gabled plain tile roof. A stack is located at the south-east end, and another runs along the ridgeline near the north-west end.
The houses are one storey and attic, with a four-window front. There are three gabled dormers, each with a two-light casement window with a central horizontal glazing bar. Below the eaves are two small plate-glass windows. The ground floor features two entrance doors and four sash windows with moulded surrounds and two vertical glazing bars, along with another small plate-glass window. A further stack is present on the rear, and a two-light casement window is set into the gable on the north-west flank. A lean-to extension is attached to No. 13, and a flat-roofed extension is attached to No. 15.
The interior reveals original 15th-century timber framing with jowled posts and remnants of a simple crown-post roof. Originally, each house had an open hall and one service room on a single storey. Curved wall braces were once present on cross walls, extending from post jowls to a central stud; some bracing remains. In the early 17th century, an inglenook stack with a timber mantel beam and a floor were inserted into No. 15, featuring a stop-chamfered bridging joist and spine beams. A different floor was later added to No. 13, with broad tenoned joists running to a bridging joist and lambs-tongue stops (possibly reused). A stack was also added to the south-east end at this time. The north-west end of the terrace has been truncated, but a reused rafter exhibits a secret notched lap mortise dating from the 13th or 14th century.
The houses were likely a speculative development and may have been part of the Wentworth Charity holdings from 1634. A detail, the offsetting of braces to allow for a door, is also found in the Vicarage of the Church of All Saints, Church Walk.
Local climate
13 and 15, London Road 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 2003
- 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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