Becket House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Becket House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-arch-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Becket House, 21, Town Street, Thaxted, CM6 2LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 611 309
- Coordinates
- 51.95348, 0.34383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Becket House is an early 19th-century building in Thaxted Town Street, with a painted brick front applied to an earlier structure. The underlying building is timber-framed and has been plastered, topped with a grey slate roof. It extends to two storeys and includes cellars. The front has three window bays, featuring double-hung vertical sliding sash windows with glazing bars. A band runs along the front. The doorcases are distinguished by flat canopies, pilasters, and rectangular fanlights. A red brick chimney stack is visible.
Local climate
Becket House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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