The Old Workhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. House.
The Old Workhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-minaret-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Workhouse, Workhouse Yard, Great Easton
- OS grid reference
- TL 611 255
- Coordinates
- 51.90537, 0.34075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Workhouse is a house that dates from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, consisting of one storey with attics. The front features an off-centre, later addition of a large red brick chimney stack with an angled brick cornice, and a lean-to porch with iron casements. The roof is covered with peg tiles and has three gabled dormers with plain bargeboards. The windows are 20th-century casements. Originally, the building had two bays but was later extended and linked to Rose Cottage by an infill bay. The top plate displays halved bladed scarf joints.
Local climate
The Old Workhouse 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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