The Warrens is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. A Post-Medieval House. 2 related planning applications.

The Warrens

WRENN ID
gentle-stone-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1952
Type
House
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
The Warrens, Duton Hill, Great Easton, CM6 2DY
OS grid reference
TL 605 268
Coordinates
51.91721, 0.33239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Warrens is a house dated by an inscription on a storey post to 1632. It has two storeys, is timber framed and plastered, and features gabled peg tile roofs. On the east side, there is a gabled staircase/porch projection from the late 17th century. The exterior was remodeled in the mid-19th century, which included applied timber framing, a rectangular bay window on the south gable, and a five-sided bay window with an oriel dormer on the west side. The east side has a quarter-circular porch with a peg tile roof and a projecting oriel. An early 17th-century stack with four octagonal shafts is located off the centre ridgeline, along with a 19th-century copy with two shafts on the southwest corner.

Inside, the house reveals a heavy, wide timber frame with long tapering jowls, decorative imposts, and a clasped side purlin roof. The contemporary stack features brick pointed arched fireplaces in the former hall and solar, as well as a heated cupboard with an original door on the flank. The later stair/porch extension contains a fine Jacobean staircase with decorative panels and Ionic balusters, which is alleged to have been moved from Easton Lodge.

Local climate

The Warrens 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • 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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