St Mary's Side Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.
St Mary's Side Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-tallow-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- St Mary's Side Vicarage, Church Street, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 629 229
- Coordinates
- 51.88156, 0.3655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Side Vicarage is a complex of buildings, dating to the mid-16th century and earlier, with substantial additions in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with peg tile roofs. The building presents a very irregular plan. The road-facing end is a two-storey block with a gable and peg tile roof, displaying exposed mid-16th century timber framing, including serpentine bracing and jowls, along with traces of an original first-floor window. A segmental-headed dormer is visible in the south roof slope, and there are three double-hung sash windows with small panes on the first floor. The ground floor has a lean-to conservatory and a large double-hung sash window. At right angles to this and running north-south is a block with a gabled peg tile roof and one small over one very large double-hung sash window. A long range parallel to the street, north of the 16th-century block, has two dormers. It features two double-hung sash windows above three old cast-iron light casements on the ground floor. At the rear, a two-storey, half-hipped roof block dating to the late 18th century has large double-hung sash windows facing west. A two-storey, late 19th-century red brick, peg tile roofed extension is located on the north-west corner. Three 19th-century brick stacks are positioned on a gable end, one on the main ridge line, and one to the rear of the southern block. To the north, a two-storey, slate hipped roofed coach-house dating to the mid-19th century is constructed of red brick, with a loft, access door, and one large opening. The interior reveals a mid-16th century, two-storey wing, formerly jettied to the front, with two bays, featuring delicately moulded floor and ceiling joists. The roof retains remains of the original side purlin and windbracing structure. The southern wing likely originates from the 17th century. The western block dates to the late 18th century and has a contemporary staircase with simple turned balusters. The northern roadside range exhibits massive jowled posts, thick bracing rising near the floor, and a moulded side girt, suggesting the substructure of a first-floor hall dating to the 13th or 14th century. Late 18th-century cornices, doors, skirtings, dados, and wooden shutters are found in several rooms. A late 17th-century service stair is located to the north of the present kitchen.
Local climate
St Mary's Side Vicarage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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