Edward House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
Edward House
- WRENN ID
- secret-timber-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Edward House, 252, Broomfield Road, CM1 4DY
- OS grid reference
- TL 705 087
- Coordinates
- 51.75156, 0.47006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Edward House is a 19th-century house located on Broomfield Road. It is constructed of gault brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern. The west front features a large, two-story Gothic window with complex Y tracery in wood, and two further Y tracery windows on the first floor, each set beneath a brick hoodmould. A six-panel main door, situated on the north side, is set within a moulded case and is topped with a rectangular fanlight. The original cast iron knocker-hand, shaped like a wreath, remains. The house has a hipped slate roof.
Local climate
Edward House 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 — 6 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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