Moat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Moat Cottage

WRENN ID
burning-roof-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1975
Type
Cottage
Address
Moat Cottage, the Street, Pleshey, CM3 1HG
OS grid reference
TL 665 145
Coordinates
51.80498, 0.41468
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moat Cottage is a range of 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages that have been converted into one tenement. The building was renovated in the 20th century. The front features some decorative pargetted patterns and consists of one storey with attics. It has small casement windows with leaded lights and a thatched roof, which includes two swept dormer windows and three gabled and tiled dormer windows. Moat Cottage, along with Willow End, the adjoining house, Little Moat Cottage, The Leather Bottle Public House, Cobblers, Woolmers, and Woolmers Cottage, forms a group.

Local climate

Moat Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
  • 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
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  1. The Leather Bottle Public House Grade II 18 m
  2. Little Moat Cottage Grade II 22 m
  3. Cobblers Grade II 24 m
  4. Woolmers Woolmers Cottage Grade II 68 m
  5. The Gardens Grade II 106 m
  6. House and Mount Stores Grade II 125 m
  7. Mount House Grade II 131 m
  8. Pleshey Castle Bridge Grade I 140 m
  9. Swiss Cottage Grade II 144 m
  10. Butlers Grade II 160 m