Institute Villa Penn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. House.
Institute Villa Penn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-crypt-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Institute Villa Penn Cottage, High Street, Stebbing, CM6 3SE
- OS grid reference
- TL 662 241
- Coordinates
- 51.8913, 0.41396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penn Cottage and Institute Villa is a house that has been converted into two cottages, likely dating from the 18th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring 20th-century pargetting. It has a red plain tiled roof and is two storeys high with a four-range layout. The windows are small paned sliding sash types. The central entrance has an 18th or 19th-century board door, which is topped with a flat canopy supported by brackets. To the right, there is a lean-to addition with a 20th-century board door. The building has two red brick chimney stacks that are symmetrically placed, and there are pentice boards above the ground floor windows.
Local climate
Institute Villa Penn Cottage 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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