Cuckoos is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House.
Cuckoos
- WRENN ID
- lone-buttress-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cuckoos, Church Road, Little Baddow
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 077
- Coordinates
- 51.74048, 0.55992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cuckoos is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Little Baddow Church Road. It has two storeys, with the upper storey jettied at the west end, supported by a moulded bressumer. The ground storey features exposed timber framing. The windows are 20th-century casements, and the roof is tiled and hipped at the east end. Notably, Thomas Hooker and John Elliot, pioneers of New England, both lived here and started a school in the building. In 1630, Hooker was called before the court of High Commission but escaped to Holland and sailed to Boston, New England, in 1633.
Local climate
Cuckoos sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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