Warish Hall and Moat Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. A Late C13 Hall house. 3 related planning applications.
Warish Hall and Moat Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tangled-crypt-cobweb
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Warish Hall and Moat Bridge, Warish Hall Road, Takeley, CM22 6NZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 568 220
- Coordinates
- 51.87541, 0.27689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Warish Hall is a late 13th-century aisled hall house that has been altered in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a red plain tile roof. A wing projects at the west end, featuring a hipped roof. The two-storey front has five bays, each containing one window, with 19th-century double-hung vertical sliding sash windows with glazing bars. There is a ground-floor bay window with a red plain tile hipped roof, and two small first-floor oriel windows. A single 15th-century vertical mullion window is also present. Two hipped gables are visible at the rear. The roof at the east end is lower than the main roof and has a parallel range behind it. Chimney stacks are constructed of 16th-century red brick and 20th-century red brick. The main entrance is a 18th-century six-panelled door set within a small, modern, plain tiled, pedimented porch. Plaster eaves coving is present.
Inside, much of the original timber framing remains, extending two and a half bays and featuring secondary rafters, tie beams, and a generally sooted roof with notched lapped collars. One original doorway survives. The 17th-century east range contains original windows, one of which retains its original shutter. Good 18th-century detailing includes the doors and staircase.
The house is moated, crossed by a 17th-century red brick bridge with 18th-century red brick walls and a blue brick half-round capping. The site was previously occupied by a Priory of St Valery in Picardy, and the current building is part of the former Priory’s remains.
Local climate
Warish Hall and Moat Bridge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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