Penvites is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. A C15 House. 3 related planning applications.
Penvites
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-rotunda-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penvites, the Street, High Easter, CM1 4QW
- OS grid reference
- TL 620 147
- Coordinates
- 51.80772, 0.34943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early to mid-15th century timber-framed house located on the east side of The Street in High Easter. The building was originally listed as being south of the Cock & Bell Inn. It is now externally plastered with 20th-century pargetting. The roof is gabled and has peg tiles, with a gable-end stack at the south end.
Penvites is a long, jetty house of two storeys, featuring four exposed jetty brackets on the front elevation. There are three double-hung sash windows with two vertical glazing bars on the first floor, while the ground floor has two smaller windows and a rebuilt square bay window with small panes. A carriageway is located at the north end, with boarded flanks.
The house is notable for its early and elaborate long wall jetty construction. It retains original moulded bridging joists and a crown post roof. Within the main chamber, a cross quadrate crown post remains, displaying broached chamfers and four-way bracing. Numerous tie beam arch braces and part of the door head are also surviving features. In the rear wall, one complete diamond mullion window can be seen.
Local climate
Penvites 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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