12, Watling Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
12, Watling Street
- WRENN ID
- ancient-string-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12, Watling Street, Thaxted, CM6 2PE
- OS grid reference
- TL 611 310
- Coordinates
- 51.95451, 0.34323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Watling Street is a building from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tile roof that is hipped at the southeast end. The building has two storeys and cellars, with a four-window range that includes double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a plaster carved eaves cornice, and the doorway is adorned with a moulded cornice and a six-panel door. At the north end, there is a 19th-century shopfront that includes a moulded canopy.
Local climate
12, Watling Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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