Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. House.
Watch House
- WRENN ID
- small-moat-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watch House, Watch House Road, Stebbing
- OS grid reference
- TL 667 241
- Coordinates
- 51.89095, 0.42236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House is a 17th-century house located on Watch House Road in Stebbing. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a left return that is weatherboarded and has a half-hipped red plain tiled roof, along with a lean-to on the left side. The house has a four-window range of small-paned, three-light casements. There is an enclosed tiled gabled porch that includes a plank and muntin door. The building is also notable for its three red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Watch House 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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