Ashtree House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Ashtree House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-newel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashtree House, the Street, High Roothing, CM6 1NW
- OS grid reference
- TL 604 174
- Coordinates
- 51.83284, 0.32663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashtree House is a house dating from around 1600 or earlier. It features a timber frame, with parts plastered and parts weatherboarded, and has a roof that is partly thatched and partly tiled. The building consists of a two-storey block with two bays positioned at right angles to the street, which includes an internal stack on the northeast side. There is also a single-storey block with an attic to the northeast and a single-storey extension beyond. At the rear, there is an 18th-century lean-to.
On the ground floor, there is one early 19th-century sash window, three 20th-century casement windows, and two plain doors. The upper floor has one 20th-century casement window and one gabled dormer featuring a 20th-century casement window. The roof of the two-storey block is half-hipped and thatched, while the remainder is gabled and tiled. Internally, very little of the framing is exposed. The two-storey block has jowled storey posts, and one curved tension brace is trenched inside the studs, visible in the upper front wall. The axial beam and common joists are stop-chamfered. There is no access to the roofs, and the single-storey block with attics could not be dated based on the evidence available in January 1983.
Local climate
Ashtree House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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