1 and 2 White Horse Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
1 and 2 White Horse Cottages
- WRENN ID
- south-rotunda-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 1 and 2 White Horse Cottages, the Street, Pleshey, CM3 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 663 144
- Coordinates
- 51.80351, 0.41154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 White Horse Cottages are 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages, featuring one storey and attics. The cottages have small casement windows and three plain boarded doors. The thatched roof includes one dormer window, and the south-west gable end has an external chimney stack. These cottages are part of a group that includes the Old White Horse, St Michaels Cottages, Vale House, The Folly, Tyle Barn, Rose Cottage, Butlers, House and Mount Stores, Old Post House, Parsonage Cottage, and House of Retreat.
Local climate
1 and 2 White Horse Cottages 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings