Gloriana and front wall and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
Gloriana and front wall and railings
- WRENN ID
- young-joist-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gloriana and front wall and railings, 36, Audley Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 540 382
- Coordinates
- 52.02088, 0.24322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century house built in the picturesque "cottage ornée" style. It's constructed of gault brick with a deep thatched roof. The building has an irregular plan, featuring a front-facing, rectangular block with a porch, a large central rear wing, a smaller wing to the west, and a 20th-century addition at the rear constructed in a similar style. The house has one and a half storeys and is marked by tall, decorative stacks.
The north-facing front elevation has a symmetrical four-window arrangement. The windows feature stone mullions and dressings, with three lights and an upper transom, fitted with iron octagonal pattern casements. A projecting central porch has a four-centred arched doorway and arched, trefoil-traceried side openings. The inner door is of Jacobean style, with battened and studded boards and "jewel" detailing. Above the porch, there is a two-light window in a four-centred arched frame with latticed casements. The bargeboards are decorative. Dormers, also in the house style with thatched roofs, bargeboards, and two-light latticed casements, are situated above the principal windows. There are three “Tudor” style stacks, alternating with the dormers; these have square bases with a chamfered cornice and octagonal shafts, with four finials on the end stacks and two on the central stack.
The south-facing rear garden elevation displays the house style with deep, pierced decorative bargeboards and pendants. A ground floor French window is fitted with upper Chinese lattice glazing and bead-moulded flush lower panels. Above, a three-light window features intersecting tracery. Two thatched dormer windows project on the west side. The west wing displays four-light transomed windows on the ground floor, with lozenge lattice glazing in the upper lights, and a two-light arch-headed window in a square frame on the first floor. Numerous small lattice-glazed windows are located at the rear of the house, along with a single dormer window between the projecting wings.
The east end has a 20th-century two-storey addition that follows the general house style, with casement windows, some of which have rectangular leaded panes. A side door consists of four panels, with upper glazed sections.
The west end features a flat-roofed side porch with a 19th-century six-panel door.
A yellow brick dwarf wall with round coping runs along part of the property, with wrought-iron railings featuring spearhead finials alternating with "bud" finials. The railings are topped with lower split curls. Wrought iron square-framed tented gate piers have bud finials, and a two-leaved gate is decorated with bold arabesques.
Local climate
Gloriana and front wall and railings 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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 0.4°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 2013
- 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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