The Shambles is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Shambles
- WRENN ID
- odd-plinth-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Shambles, Hatfield Broad Oak, CM22 6NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 550 198
- Coordinates
- 51.85596, 0.25065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shambles is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The building is two storeys high and features a gabled thatched roof with a central ridge-line stack. There is a 20th-century lean-to porch at the center, and the windows are 19th-century casements that have a cross pattern of glazing bars in each light. At the rear, there is a slated lean-to and a gable pentice board.
Local climate
The Shambles 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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