7, Common Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House.

7, Common Hill

WRENN ID
tall-brick-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1972
Type
House
Address
7, Common Hill, Saffron Walden
OS grid reference
TL 539 386
Coordinates
52.02476, 0.24235
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 7 Common Hill is a house built around 1840, featuring a 20th-century interior renovation. It is constructed from yellow gault brick with scored pointing and has a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, standing two storeys high with a cellar.

The front (east) elevation has two windows and a central doorway. The windows are segment-headed sashes with glazing bars, arranged in a 3x4 pane configuration. The doorway features a semicircular overlight with decorative glazing bars and a 20th-century six-panelled flush bead moulded door, with boot scrapers on either side. To the north, there is a passageway leading to the rear with a 19th-century boarded door, while to the south, there is a segment-headed basement window, now fitted with a 20th-century casement and a grille above. The windows are flanked by 20th-century louvred shutters. The roof is hipped at the south end with deep eaves, and there are stacks on the south end wall.

The rear (west) elevation has three windows, with the first floor featuring two similar sashes with glazing bars in a 3x4 pane arrangement, and one smaller window with a 20th-century casement in a 2x4 pane configuration. The central doorway has a large arch-headed glazed panel, and the basement window has been replaced with a 20th-century 4x2 paned casement. At the north end, there is a shared passageway with No. 9, which has an original brick floor. The south end elevation is plain and has two stacks.

Inside, the interior has been completely reworked in the 20th century. The cellar features 19th-century red brick, and the south wall includes a segment-headed fireplace.

Local climate

7, Common Hill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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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