The Curiosity Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. House, shop.
The Curiosity Shop
- WRENN ID
- scarred-oriel-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Curiosity Shop, High Street, Stebbing
- OS grid reference
- TL 660 243
- Coordinates
- 51.89271, 0.41225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Curiosity Shop is a house and shop that dates from the 17th to 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with 20th-century decorative pargetting, and a grey slate roof. The building has two storeys and a two-window range of 20th-century small paned casements. The ground floor includes bowed shop windows supported by small brackets, and there is a central 20th-century small paned glazed door. A red brick chimney stack is located on the left side of the building. It has been recently restored and is included mainly for its group value.
Local climate
The Curiosity Shop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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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