Motts House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Motts House
- WRENN ID
- slow-pilaster-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Motts House, 5, the Green, Writtle, CM1 3DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 677 062
- Coordinates
- 51.72974, 0.42816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Motts House is a timber-framed house dating back to the late 16th century, with a 17th-century extension and alterations and additions from the 18th century and later. The front of the house was refaced in the 18th century using red brick and features a parapet. It is two storeys high with a seven-window front, alongside a three-window extension. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars set in plain reveals. A central four-panel door is topped with a rectangular fanlight, fluted pilasters, and a cornice. The roof is tiled, and it retains two original chimney stacks with grouped diagonal shafts on square bases. Motts House is part of a group of listed buildings around The Green, which also includes numbers 8, 10, 58, 52, and 25.
Local climate
Motts House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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