Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House.

Timbers

WRENN ID
fallen-vestry-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
House
Address
Timbers, Manor Lane, Great Chesterford
OS grid reference
TL 509 427
Coordinates
52.06243, 0.20069
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Timbers is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house, formerly known as The Old School House, located at right angles to the road on Manor Lane in Great Chesterford. The building has been renovated and restored, with the timber framing now exposed. It stands two storeys high, featuring a jettied upper storey on the south-west gable end. The windows are casement style with lattice leaded lights. At the north-east end, there is a two-storeyed bay window. The roof is tiled and includes a cruciform shafted external chimney stack.

Local climate

Timbers 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. Little Barn Grade II 27 m
  2. Amberley Cottage Grade II 35 m
  3. Brock House Grade II 39 m
  4. Reed House Grade II 42 m
  5. The Crown and Thistle Inn Grade II 55 m
  6. Chesnuts Grade II 80 m
  7. Old White Horse Grade II 100 m
  8. Thatched Cottage Grade II 124 m
  9. Gables Grade II 125 m
  10. Carmelstead Cottage Grade II 143 m