Snares Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. A C17 Cottage.

Snares Hill Cottage

WRENN ID
dim-landing-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Snares Hill Cottage, Stebbing
OS grid reference
TL 655 261
Coordinates
51.9095, 0.40512
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Snares Hill Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone later alterations, including a 20th-century extension to the right and rear. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. It has two storeys and features a window arrangement of three on the first floor and two on the ground floor, primarily consisting of small paned horizontal sliding sashes, with some 20th-century casements. To the right, there is a 20th-century enclosed porch with a red tiled roof and a board door. Inside, there is an original fireplace associated with a red brick chimney stack.

Local climate

Snares Hill Cottage 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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