42, The Street is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
42, The Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-flagstone-ebony
- 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
- 42, The Street, Little Waltham, CM3 3NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 707 126
- Coordinates
- 51.78689, 0.47381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century timber-framed house with plaster rendering, located on the south side of The Street in Little Waltham. The front elevation features 20th-century scratch pargetting. The north front has a single window bay, while the west front has two. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor of the west front incorporates a 19th-century shop window with fluted pilasters and a cornice, and a central 6-panel door with a rectangular fanlight featuring ornamental glazing bars. This property forms a group with numbers 26, 30 to 42 (even), 29 to 39 (odd), and 43.
Local climate
42, The Street 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 86% 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 1997
- 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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