Nos. 13 and 14, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Building. 1 related planning application.
Nos. 13 and 14, High Street
- WRENN ID
- under-pinnacle-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Nos. 13 and 14, High Street, CM1 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 709 067
- Coordinates
- 51.7338, 0.47376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 13 and 14 on High Street is a 16th-century building that features a timber frame and is rendered. It stands three stories high and has a three-window range, with a parapet at the front and eaves at the rear. The front (west) side includes two hipped dormer windows. The second floor has sash windows with glazing bars, along with a projecting string and cornice mould at both the second floor and eaves levels. The ground floor has modern insertions, while the roof is covered with red clay tiles. The building has a rectangular plan with a central passage on the ground floor. To the south of this passage, against the rear wall, there is a three-story stair tower framed in timber, topped with a hipped roof. Chamfered joists are visible in the ceilings of the first floor.
Local climate
Nos. 13 and 14, High Street 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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