Ruffles is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1983. House.
Ruffles
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pedestal-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ruffles, 50, Hockley Road, Rayleigh
- OS grid reference
- TQ 809 910
- Coordinates
- 51.58922, 0.61089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruffles is a house dating from the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame and is rough rendered, topped with a red plain tiled roof and a rear red brick chimney stack. The house is two storeys high and features a two-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. There is a central 20th-century door with a moulded surround. To the left, there is a 20th-century extension with a hipped roof and 20th-century three-light casements. The tall rear range was added around 1921, along with a single-storey range.
Inside, the house includes jowled storey posts, 17th-century stairs and fireplaces, an 18th-century archway to the stairs with fluted pilasters, and an 18th-century cupboard with a semi-circular head. One room on the first floor has a shallow vaulted ceiling and a Greek key frieze. The roof features side purlins and collars. In the garden, there is the site of a windmill that is shown on the Chapman and Andre map of 1777.
Local climate
Ruffles receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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