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

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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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