Bellrope Cottage Cadmus Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Bellrope Cottage Cadmus Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-portal-root
- 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
- Bellrope Cottage Cadmus Cottage, Main Road, Great and Little Leighs
- OS grid reference
- TL 725 166
- Coordinates
- 51.82223, 0.50224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bellrope Cottage and Cadmus Cottage form a range of cottages dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. Originally comprising five tenements, they are now combined into two dwellings. The cottages are timber-framed and have been plastered over. They are one storey high with attics. The windows are casement types. A gabled porch with a boarded stable-style door is present. The roof is tiled, featuring three dormers with sloping roofs and two gabled dormers. The interior retains exposed timber framing. The cottages were once believed to be almshouses, and are located on the west side of the Great and Little Main Road in Leighs.
Local climate
Bellrope Cottage Cadmus 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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