40, Newbiggen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Hall house.
40, Newbiggen Street
- WRENN ID
- sheer-transept-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- 40, Newbiggen Street, Thaxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 609 311
- Coordinates
- 51.95569, 0.34124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Newbiggen Street is a 15th-century hall house featuring a gabled cross-wing at the south end. The building is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a roof of red plain tiles and grey slate. It stands two storeys high and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with two sets of double-hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars. At the south end, there is a modern bay window with a tiled roof, and the exterior has modern pargetting. Inside, the timber framing is still visible.
Local climate
40, Newbiggen Street 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
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