The Pound House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage.
The Pound House
- WRENN ID
- fading-steeple-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Pound House, Great Canfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 586 181
- Coordinates
- 51.83966, 0.3009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pound House is a cottage from the 18th century that was extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plastered walls and tiled roofs. The building has bays with a central chimney stack and a lobby entrance, along with lean-to extensions at each end and a rear extension from the 19th or 20th century. It is a single storey with attics and has a gambrel roof that is half-hipped at each end. The lower part of the walls is covered with weatherboarding. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century gabled porch, along with two catslide dormers that also have 20th-century casement windows. There is a Y-plan stair located at the rear of the chimney stack, which is likely original, and the house retains its original floorboards.
Local climate
The Pound 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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