Andrews is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. House.
Andrews
- WRENN ID
- weathered-step-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Andrews, High Roothing
- OS grid reference
- TL 615 172
- Coordinates
- 51.83015, 0.34313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Andrews is a house dating from the 16th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame, weatherboarded on the south and east sides, and roughcast rendered on the north and west. The roofs are tiled. The house includes a two-bay service crosswing aligned north-south, which is jettied to the south and dates back to the early 16th century, with an external chimney stack added on the west side in the 19th century. To the east is a two-bay, two-storey hall block from the late 16th century, which has a chimney stack in the eastern bay. There is a single-storey extension to the east from the 19th or 20th century, and a two-storey extension to the north of the crosswing with a hipped roof, also from the 20th century. A porch was added to the north of the hall block in the 20th century.
On the south elevation, the original foiled bargeboards are visible on the gable of the crosswing, along with two original plain brackets under the jetty. The ground floor features two 19th-century cast iron casement windows, two 20th-century metal casement windows, a plain door from the 19th century in the crosswing, and a glazed door from the 20th century in the hall block. The first floor has two 20th-century metal casement windows and one 19th-century cast iron casement window with a quadrant friction storey. The crosswing has a collar rafter roof, with the ventral truss braced only by extended jowls and a high collar, remaining in original condition. The hall block has a clasped purlin roof with straight tiebeams and straight braces, dating to the late 16th century, featuring re-used smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall. The axial beam and common joists in this block are stop-chamfered. A small wrought iron window from the 17th century with leaded glazing is located in the upper internal wall at the north end of the crosswing. There is also a two-movement wrought iron cooking crane from the 18th century in the hearth of the hall block. The 16th-century panelling previously reported is now missing. Originally, the building was tiled, then thatched before 1948, and has since been re-tiled.
Local climate
Andrews 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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