The Saracen's Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1949. A C16 Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Saracen's Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- winter-window-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Saracen's Head Hotel, High Street, CM1 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 068
- Coordinates
- 51.73434, 0.47345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saracen's Head Hotel is a 16th century building that was encased and enlarged in the 18th century, with further alterations made in the 19th century and modern times. The exterior walls are now made of brick with stucco surfaces. The hotel has three storeys and features a five-window range with a large Ionic porch. There is a heavy moulded string at the first floor level, along with long and short quoins and a rusticated ground floor. The windows are pairs of six-pane sashes set in wide stucco surrounds, and there is one bow window on the ground floor to the north, which contains 42 panes. The building has a U-shaped plan. It is reputed that the author Anthony Trollope stayed here while writing parts of his books.
Local climate
The Saracen's Head Hotel 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
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