The Old White Horse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Old White Horse
- WRENN ID
- burning-pedestal-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old White Horse, the Street, Pleshey, CM3 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 663 143
- Coordinates
- 51.8034, 0.41132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old White Horse is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered building that has undergone later alterations and additions. The base is made of weatherboarding, while the front features roughcast. It stands two storeys high and has three window openings with casements. The ground floor includes two small splayed bay windows. The roof is tiled. The Old White Horse is part of a group that includes 1 and 2 White Horse Cottages, St Michaels Cottages, Vale House, The Folly, Tyle Barn, Rose Cottage, Butlers, House and Mount Stores, along with the Old Post House, Parsonage Cottage, and House of Retreat.
Local climate
The Old White Horse 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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