55, Audley Road is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

55, Audley Road

WRENN ID
kindled-bracket-weasel
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
55, Audley Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3HD
OS grid reference
TL 538 381
Coordinates
52.0207, 0.24091
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 55 Audley Road is a house from the early 19th century, constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof and a rectangular plan. It stands two storeys tall and features a symmetrical front elevation with three windows. The roof has deep eaves and stacks at the outer walls. The central front door is set within a segmental arched recess with voussoirs and is topped by a 20th-century segmental arched projecting canopy supported by shaped brackets and fluted pilasters. The door itself consists of six recessed panels. The windows on either side of the door also have segmental heads. On the first floor, the windows are in rectangular wooden frames, all of which are sashes with horns.

At the west end of the house, there is a ground floor lean-to with a round window. The rear elevation features a two-storey 20th-century addition made of rendered brick, but an old red brick stack at the eastern end suggests that the house was originally of an L-plan. There is a central doorway on the rear, with a door that has two upper glazed panels. To the west, there is a triple window with glazing bars arranged in a pattern of one by four, four by four, and one by four panes, and to the east, there is a round window. On the first floor, there are three similar sash windows, each with three by four panes. The west side elevation includes a continuous ground floor 20th-century lean-to that extends across the rear addition, featuring one first floor sash window with a moulded architrave and one ground floor paired sash window in the lean-to, both with three by four panes.

Local climate

55, Audley Road 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • 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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