Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House.
Lower House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-brass-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower House, High Easter
- OS grid reference
- TL 619 141
- Coordinates
- 51.80295, 0.34697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House is a house from the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior with a peg tile roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and has an 'L' shaped plan. The roof is hipped down to create a catslide over a modern loggia at the north end. At the south end, the roof hips back to form the ridge of a wing with a gable at the rear. There is a central rebuilt ridgeline stack with attached diagonal shafts.
The front of the house has a central three-storey porch and stair tower with a gable and bargeboards. The entrance door is made of oak and framed in oak. On the first floor, there is an oriel window with 19th-century casements, where the central two lights are canted out in a 'V' shape on an oak bracket. The windows throughout the house are generally 19th-century casements with opening lights and small panes above a transom. The main lights feature a single central horizontal glazing bar.
On the ground floor, there are projecting rectangular bay windows with similar casements on either side of the porch, with the southern bay having a canted centre. A flat-roofed dormer and a minor stack are located on the south-facing roof slope. The timber frame is of typical but good quality, featuring unjowled posts and an elaborately stop-chamfered spine beam.
Local climate
Lower House 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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