Shepherds is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. A C15/C16 House.

Shepherds

WRENN ID
half-soffit-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Shepherds, the Downs, Stebbing
OS grid reference
TL 658 247
Coordinates
51.89685, 0.4086
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shepherds is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with some sections covered in weatherboarding. The roof is red plain tiles, half-hipped to the right, and there is a lower range to the left. The house has two storeys and mainly consists of two ranges, with three-light windows and one window on the ground floor of the recessed left range. A central, hipped, red-tiled enclosed porch with a glazed door leads into the house, which also has a nailed board door. There is a red brick chimney stack and two external chimney stacks at the rear. Inside, there are three brick fireplaces of different ages: one from the early 16th century with a cambered mantel beam, another with a straight beam, and a later one with a rough-hewn beam. The interior also features original doors and moulded beams, as well as stop-chamfered beams.

Local climate

Shepherds 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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