Plough Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1976. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Plough Inn
- WRENN ID
- rusted-rampart-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Plough Inn, High Street, Great Chesterford, CB10 1PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 512 429
- Coordinates
- 52.06425, 0.20431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plough Inn is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered building, with a 19th-century addition at the west end. The front features an oval date panel displaying the initials R.I.W. and the year 1792. The building has two storeys and a four-window range, primarily consisting of double-hung sashes, with some casements. The 19th-century addition includes horizontal sliding sashes. The main block has a tiled roof with a large central square chimney stack, while the addition has a hipped slate roof.
Local climate
Plough Inn 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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