Plesheybury House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1952. Hall house. 2 related planning applications.
Plesheybury House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-sandstone-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1952
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Plesheybury House, Bury Road, CM3 1HB
- OS grid reference
- TL 657 142
- Coordinates
- 51.80257, 0.40326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plesheybury House is a timber-framed and plastered hall house, likely dating from the 16th century, with a floor added in the 17th century. The building features cross wings at both the east and west ends, each with jettied upper storeys. The front has a window arrangement of three sections, consisting of 19th-century double-hung sashes with vertical glazing bars. A six-panel door is set within a doorcase that includes an ornamented frieze and a flat cornice hood. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Plesheybury House 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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