Little Moat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A C19 House.
Little Moat Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-nave-grain
- 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
- Little Moat Cottage, the Street, Pleshey
- OS grid reference
- TL 665 145
- Coordinates
- 51.8049, 0.41439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Moat Cottage is an early 19th-century house that features a timber frame and weatherboarding, with a plastered front. The building has two storeys and a two-window range, with casement windows that include glazing bars. There is a plain boarded doorway, and the roof is tiled. The cottage is included in the listing for its group value, as it is part of a collection of buildings that includes Willow End, Moat Cottage, The Leather Bottle Public House, Cobblers, and Woolmers Cottage.
Local climate
Little Moat Cottage 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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