33, The Downs is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. A C17 House.
33, The Downs
- WRENN ID
- vast-zinc-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 33, The Downs, Great Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 626 223
- Coordinates
- 51.87596, 0.36153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 33 on The Downs is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a gabled peg tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a large, central red brick chimney stack at the ridgeline. On the first floor, there are four double hung sash windows with moulded surrounds and margin glazing bars. The ground floor includes a nearly central timber trellis porch with a hipped roof, above which is an unusual pedimented porch roof adorned with a large ball finial. Flanking the porch are canted bay windows, each with hipped roofs, along with a single similar double hung sash window on either side. Inside, some timber framing is exposed.
Local climate
33, The Downs 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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