Outbuilding to St Aylotts is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. A Medieval Outbuilding.

Outbuilding to St Aylotts

WRENN ID
dusk-sill-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1951
Type
Outbuilding
Period
Medieval
Address
Outbuilding to St Aylotts, Ashdon Road, Sewards End
OS grid reference
TL 569 399
Coordinates
52.03546, 0.28698
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an outbuilding dating from around 1500, located on the east side of St Aylotts, connected by an early 20th-century passageway. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, standing on a 19th-century red brick base, with a peg-tiled gabled roof. It has a square plan and two storeys.

On the north elevation, the ground floor features a double casement window with glazing bars, consisting of four panes by two panes. The east elevation is blank but includes a weatherboarded lean-to with a slate roof, which has a small 19th-century stack and a fixed two-light window. The south elevation is also blank, with the linking passage to the house featuring a simple mono-pitched slate roof, a three-light casement window, and a plain door from the 20th century.

Inside, the ground floor displays heavy timber framing with recesses for internal corner bracing similar to that of the main house. The ceiling has been inserted with joists of an early 17th-century type, featuring lamb's tongue chamfer stops. The original use of the outbuilding is unknown, but it has been used as a brewhouse in living memory. Its position, close to the front of the house in front of the hall and solar rooms, suggests it was not originally intended as a kitchen or hunting standing.

Local climate

Outbuilding to St Aylotts 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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