Wenden Place is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Wenden Place
- WRENN ID
- open-rood-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wenden Place, Royston Road, Wendens Ambo, CB11 4JY
- OS grid reference
- TL 511 363
- Coordinates
- 52.00516, 0.20098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wenden Place is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house with an early 19th-century brick block added at the east end, which is painted. The older west wing has two storeys and attics, while the east block has two storeys. The windows throughout are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The doorway features pilasters and a cornice hood. On the south front of the east block, there is one window range set in a slightly recessed semi-circular headed panel topped with a pedimented gable. The roof is slate, while the west wing has a tiled roof, a coved plaster eaves cornice, and three hipped dormers.
Local climate
Wenden Place 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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 0.4°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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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