House of Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
House of Retreat
- WRENN ID
- fallow-rubble-hyssop
- 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
- House of Retreat, the Street, Pleshey, CM3 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 663 143
- Coordinates
- 51.80321, 0.41153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The House of Retreat is a late 18th century or early 19th century timber-framed and plastered house located in Pleshey. The ground floor is faced in colourwashed brick and there are later additions at the rear. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range with double-hung sash windows. The first-storey windows have glazing bars, while the ground floor includes two later 19th-century splayed bays. The roof is tiled. The House of Retreat is part of a group that includes the Old Post House, Parsonage Cottage, Old White Horse, 1 and 2 White Horse Cottages, St Michaels Cottages, Vale House, The Folly, Rose Cottage, Butlers, and House and Mount Stores.
Local climate
House of Retreat 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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