Visual and Aural Services Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Shop, workshop.
Visual and Aural Services Limited
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-alcove-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Shop, workshop
- Address
- Visual and Aural Services Limited, Cage End, Hatfield Broad Oak
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 165
- Coordinates
- 51.82605, 0.24125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Visual and Aural Services Limited is a shop and workshop dating from the mid-16th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with a painted brick front. The building is two storeys high and has a gabled roof covered with peg tiles. The front elevation includes three iron casements with rectangular leaded lights and one casement with small panes. On the ground floor, there are a pair of projecting square bay windows with small panes, connected by a flat hood on shaped brackets, along with a central door that has an arched head. To the right, there is a large square projecting bay with small panes. At the rear, there is a large wall stack behind the western part of the building, which dates from the 17th century. Inside, some of the timber frame is partially exposed, revealing jowled posts, evidence of a former long wall jetty, and a simple crown post roof with down bracing in one truss. The top plates are exposed on the outside, showing halved and bridled scarf joists.
Local climate
Visual and Aural Services Limited 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 95% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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