St Anne's Castle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A Early C19 Inn. 6 related planning applications.
St Anne's Castle Inn
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pedestal-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- St Anne's Castle Inn, Main Road, Great and Little Leighs, CM3 1NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 727 171
- Coordinates
- 51.82641, 0.50574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Anne's Castle Inn is located on the site of a hermitage known as St Anne's, where pilgrims would rest on their journeys to and from the tomb of St Thomas a Becket. After the dissolution in 1571, the site was given to Thomas Jennings. In 1636, a Will Chandler is noted as the keeper of the inns at Pleshie and St Anne's. An inn is depicted on the site in Ogilby's map of 1675. The current building dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of painted brick. It has two storeys and features a three-window range with double-hung sashes that have glazing bars set in plain reveals. The ground storey includes three canted bays on the front. The doorways are designed with panelled reveals, architraves with corner roundels, and cornice hoods. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, featuring a paired bracketed eaves soffit.
Local climate
St Anne's Castle Inn 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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