Monks Cottage the Little Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House, tenements.
Monks Cottage the Little Shop
- WRENN ID
- blind-lantern-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House, tenements
- Address
- Monks Cottage the Little Shop, High Street, Newport
- OS grid reference
- TL 521 339
- Coordinates
- 51.98293, 0.21421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Cottage and The Little Shop is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Newport High Street. It includes a separate building to the north and features a gable on the west front. The property has been converted into two tenements and stands two storeys high, with a three-window range of leaded casements. The gabled block contains a 19th-century former shop window on the ground floor. The roofs are tiled, and the main block displays a coved plaster eaves cornice at the front.
Local climate
Monks Cottage the Little Shop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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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