55 and 57, Stortford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. House, former public house. 1 related planning application.
55 and 57, Stortford Road
- WRENN ID
- night-steel-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- House, former public house
- Address
- 55 and 57, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 624 220
- Coordinates
- 51.87297, 0.35767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
55 and 57 Stortford Road is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the late 14th century and the 16th to 17th centuries. It features a timber frame with plaster and has gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The building has a 'T' shape, with a hipped roof and white weatherboarding on a later outbuilding at the rear of the west end.
The front of the house includes a crosswing at the east end, which has a cast iron, leaded light window above a rectangular bay window with small panes, along with a wrought iron sign bracket. The main block has a very small gabled dormer on the front roof slope and two large cast iron leaded light windows on the first floor, situated above a lean-to porch with brick steps and a painted timber handrail. Additionally, there is a two-light iron leaded light casement window and a slightly bowed similar window. The west gable features a four-light leaded light casement above a 19th-century leaded light square bay window.
There is a lean-to on the east flank of the crosswing and an off-centre large stack at the front of the ridgeline, along with a stack against the east end of the crosswing. Inside, the building reveals a fairly complete frame of the late 14th-century crosswing, although it lacks its central crownpost. The "hall" range suggests it was raised in the early 17th century.
Local climate
55 and 57, Stortford Road 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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