Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-remnant-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, 203 Main Road, Great and Little Leighs, CM3 1NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 731 180
- Coordinates
- 51.83458, 0.51187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a small timber-framed and plastered cottage, dating from the 18th century or early 19th century. It has one storey and features a two-window range with casement windows and a boarded door. The roof is thatched. Walnut Tree Cottage is part of a group that includes Green Tones, The Glen, Apple Tree Cottage, Brenwood Cottage, and Champions, with Green Tones and The Glen being buildings of local interest.
Local climate
Walnut Tree Cottage 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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