Stebbing Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. A C16 House.
Stebbing Park
- WRENN ID
- iron-hearth-jay
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stebbing Park, the Downs
- OS grid reference
- TL 657 244
- Coordinates
- 51.89381, 0.40731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stebbing Park is a house dating from the mid-16th century, featuring later additions and alterations. It has an L-shaped layout with a timber frame and plastered exterior. A stair turret is located on the right side, topped with a crownpost roof and decorative barge boards at the gable. To the left front, there is a single-storey extension. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles and have moulded and dentilled eaves cornices.
The house has a four-window range of 18th-century small-paned sliding sashes on the first floor, and a one-to-two window range on the ground floor, with the furthest right window consisting of three lights. The entrance features a six-panel door with an ornate fanlight above, flanked by moulded pilasters, dentilled capitals, and a frieze, all beneath a flat canopy, which is accessed by steps. There is also a 20th-century door leading to the left extension.
The rear wing of the house is jettied and includes a 17th-century iron leaded bay window on the ground floor, complete with original shutters and ironmongery. The main range roof has a side purlin structure, and there is 17th-century internal panelling along with a 16th-century external red brick chimney stack on both the front and rear ranges.
Stebbing Park is set in a picturesque parkland, adjacent to a moated motte. Within the grounds, there are remnants of a 13th-century barn that has been incorporated into a 20th-century swimming pool building. Additionally, there is a fine 19th or 20th-century greenhouse featuring a hipped roof, ornate cast iron crested ridge and finials, seven decorative cast iron side brackets (three at the rear), and five matching apex ties. The windows of the greenhouse have small-paned upper glazing panels.
Local climate
Stebbing Park 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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