The Glass House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1983. Cottage.
The Glass House
- WRENN ID
- carved-crypt-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Glass House, Great Hallingbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 518 182
- Coordinates
- 51.84184, 0.20352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Glass House is a cottage dating from the 16th century or earlier. It features a red plain tile roof with a half hip on the right side. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with panels decorated with broken glass. The building is two stories high and has a two-window range. It includes casement windows with small glazing bars and a central hipped porch covered with plain tiles. There are two red brick chimney stacks, and a 20th-century bay window is located on the left return.
Local climate
The Glass House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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