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
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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