Lace Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage.
Lace Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fallen-alcove-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lace Cottages, 1 and 2, Chelmsford Road, Great Waltham
- OS grid reference
- TL 701 129
- Coordinates
- 51.78966, 0.46562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lace Cottages, located on Chelmsford Road in Great Waltham, is a range of timber-framed and plastered cottages dating from the 18th to 19th century. The building now serves as two tenements and is one storey high with attics, featuring a four-window range with casement windows. Two doorways have "Gothic" arched heads. The roof is tiled and half hipped at both the north and south ends, and it includes five gabled dormers with lights designed to fit the gables.
Local climate
Lace 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 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
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