St Michaels Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
St Michaels Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rough-attic-root
- 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
- St Michaels Cottages, the Street, Pleshey
- OS grid reference
- TL 663 144
- Coordinates
- 51.80365, 0.41175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Michaels Cottages is a range of 18th century timber-framed and plastered houses located on the north-west side of The Street in Pleshey. The cottages are two storeys high and feature five window ranges with casements and plain doorways. The roofs are tiled, and the south-west gable end has an external chimney stack. St Michaels Cottages is part of a group that includes the Old White Horse, 1 and 2 White Horse Cottages, Vale House, The Folly, Tyle Barn, Rose Cottage, Butlers, House and Mount Stores, the Old Post House, Parsonage Cottage, and the House of Retreat.
Local climate
St Michaels Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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