Blakes is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House.
Blakes
- WRENN ID
- spare-mortar-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blakes, High Easter
- OS grid reference
- TL 657 155
- Coordinates
- 51.81405, 0.40356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blakes is a house dating from around 1640. It has a timber frame and is plastered, topped with a half hipped peg tile roof. The building is two storeys high and features a catslide rear lean-to, a hipped porch, and a two-storey extension at right angles, which has painted weatherboarding and a hipped roof at the end. The layout follows a typical lobby entry plan, but it includes two posts on the front wall for the stack bay and only one in the rear wall. There is a central rectangular ridge line stack and a small stack that rises through the rear roof.
The front of the house has a central peg tile gabled porch supported by oak posts and filled with glazing. The windows include 20th-century metal leaded light casements and painted timber casements. Inside, there is a central inglenook and three original moulded plank doors.
Local climate
Blakes 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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