Fiddlers Rest is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Timber-framed building.

Fiddlers Rest

WRENN ID
tilted-cobalt-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
Timber-framed building
Address
Fiddlers Rest, Church Street, Great Chesterfield, Great Chesterford, CB10 1NP
OS grid reference
TL 506 427
Coordinates
52.0627, 0.19689
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Fiddlers Rest is an early to mid-19th century timber-framed and plastered building located on Church Street in Great Chesterford. It features a gable at the south end, which includes an upper oval panel displaying the initials C.A.H. and a central panel indicating the date 1841. The front of the building is panelled and has an ornamental plaster band. It is fitted with casement windows and has a slate roof, which includes an internal chimney stack with three octagonal shafts.

Local climate

Fiddlers Rest 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Sugar House and Barn Grade II 34 m
  2. Printers Office Occupied by John Moore Grade II 38 m
  3. Whitgates Grade II 52 m
  4. Old Vicarage Grade II* 61 m
  5. Maltings Cottage Grade II 64 m
  6. Church of England Primary School including playground area wall immediately to west Grade II 64 m
  7. Mortimers Grade II 64 m
  8. Wren Cottage and Copperfields Grade II 66 m
  9. White Cottage Grade II 80 m
  10. The Old Post Office Grade II 81 m