Mole Hatch is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House.
Mole Hatch
- WRENN ID
- second-rood-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mole Hatch, 328, Broomfield Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 090
- Coordinates
- 51.75437, 0.47342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mole Hatch is a building dating from around 1500, constructed with a timber frame and rendered exterior. It is two stories tall and features a central front door flanked by two sets of modern metal casement windows, with two identical sets of casements above on the first floor. The building has a modern tiled porch and false front timbers. The roof is ridged and gabled, topped with red brick chimney stacks at each end, the southern stack being pilastered. The roof is covered with peg tiles. The plan of the building is rectangular with rear additions, and the number of bays is now indeterminate. The framing is heavy and of good quality, and the roof timbers are heavily soot encrusted.
Local climate
Mole Hatch 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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