Drivers End is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Residential, tenement. 2 related planning applications.
Drivers End
- WRENN ID
- pitched-fireplace-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Residential, tenement
- Address
- Drivers End, 16 and 17, Farnham Green, CM23 1HN
- OS grid reference
- TL 468 256
- Coordinates
- 51.91041, 0.13363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drivers End is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th century. It was originally a range of cottages and is now a single tenement. The building has been renovated. It is one storey high, with an attic level. Modern casement windows are fitted, featuring leaded lights. The thatched roof is half-hipped, with four dormers facing the front and a central chimney stack. The interior reveals exposed timber framing, ceiling beams, and joists.
Local climate
Drivers End 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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