Ellis Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1973. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Ellis Cottages
- WRENN ID
- weathered-railing-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1973
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Ellis Cottages, 20-24, High Street, Stock
- OS grid reference
- TQ 691 989
- Coordinates
- 51.66425, 0.44413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ellis Cottages is an 18th-century timber-framed building clad in weatherboarding, situated on the north side of High Street in Stock. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window front. The windows are casements with glazing bars, and there are three boarded doors. The roofs are tiled, featuring a large, square chimney stack. Ellis Cottages forms a group with numbers 14 to 24 (even) on the same street.
Local climate
Ellis Cottages 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 90% 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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