Wakelyn is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
Wakelyn
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hall-sable
- 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
- Wakelyn, Watling Lane, Thaxted, CM6 2QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 609 310
- Coordinates
- 51.95506, 0.34049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakelyn is a 17th-century or earlier house, originally timber-framed and now plastered, with a hipped thatched roof. The house is one storey high with attics. It has a four-window front, featuring modern leaded casement windows. Two eyebrow dormers are visible in the roof, and a central chimney stack is constructed of red brick.
Local climate
Wakelyn 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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