The Old Ale House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage.
The Old Ale House
- WRENN ID
- idle-loggia-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Ale House, Downham Road, Stock
- OS grid reference
- TQ 705 986
- Coordinates
- 51.66087, 0.46383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ale House is an early 19th century red brick cottage that has been colourwashed. It is a single storey building featuring casement windows, with shutters on the windows at the east end that faces the road. The roof is thatched and hipped at the east end.
Local climate
The Old Ale 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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