Coval Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. A Georgian Hall. 2 related planning applications.
Coval Hall
- WRENN ID
- solemn-chapel-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Hall
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Coval Hall, Rainsford Road, CM1 2QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 702 072
- Coordinates
- 51.73772, 0.46484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coval Hall is an 18th century building that incorporates an earlier structure. The external walls are made of white painted brick, and the building is two storeys high. The eastern elevation features a range of seven windows, which have double-hung sashes with thin bars beneath cambered heads. The southern elevation includes three parallel wings, each with hipped roofs covered in peg tiles. These wings vary in length, creating an irregular plan. A central timber portico is glazed and supported by four circular columns. There is a 17th century chimney stack located in the east wing. Inside, the entrance has stone flags, and the staircase features turned balusters and bracketed tread-ends. The interior also includes substantial softwood panelling and heavy moulded ceiling cornices dating from around 1700.
Local climate
Coval Hall 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings