Dance School, Former Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. Dance school, maltings.
Dance School, Former Maltings
- WRENN ID
- empty-bailey-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1994
- Type
- Dance school, maltings
- Address
- Dance School, Former Maltings, High Street, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02282, 0.23929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a dance school that was formerly used as maltings, located in the Central Arcade and dating from the mid-19th century. It features yellow gault brickwork laid in Flemish bond and has a gabled slate roof. The structure consists of three low storeys, with a single-storey section to the west that includes the entrance.
On the second floor, there are five rectangular openings equipped with horizontal ventilator strips. The first floor has five 2-light casement windows with segmental arched heads, along with a double-hung sash window that contains 16 panes. The ground floor features a door opening, a blocked door opening, three similar segmental arched 2-light casements, and two blind arches that were originally part of an open arcade with a central pier and strings at the springing. One of the arches is now infilled with brick, while the other is partly boarded and has a 2-light casement window.
The building once extended westward to the High Street, and remnants of two additional arches from the arcade are now incorporated into a lean-to block with a slate roof. This section includes a 4-pane window and a segmental-headed 4-pane window. The High Street frontage is marked by two painted brick piers topped with ball finials, with a parapet in between. A door with moulded panels is set within an elliptical brick arch that features bowtel moulding, interrupted by moulded small capitals and bases.
Local climate
Dance School, Former Maltings 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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