Signpost Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House.
Signpost Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-arch-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Signpost Cottage, Main Road, Ford End, Great Waltham, CM3 1LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 676 168
- Coordinates
- 51.82492, 0.4309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Signpost Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered house located in Great Waltham on Main Road. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a four-window range with casement windows. The roof is tiled and includes four small gables on the front, along with a chimney stack that has diagonal shafts on a rectangular base. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed ceiling beams and joists.
Local climate
Signpost 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- No related consent applications matched
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