The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. Hall house.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-basalt-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- The Chestnuts, Main Road, Boreham
- OS grid reference
- TL 759 103
- Coordinates
- 51.76438, 0.54855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a former hall house located on Boreham Main Road, dating from around 1550, with later additions from approximately 1620 and 1830. The building is finished in stucco and features a main tiled hipped roof that extends to the eaves. It has an L-shaped plan with additional wings at the center rear and stands two storeys tall, with four windows across the front. The entrance is located in the second bay from the right and consists of a square-headed, panelled door. The windows are square-headed and date from the 20th century. Inside, the main frame is exposed, and there are two planked doors from the 17th century, along with a significant amount of 18th-century woodwork, including doors and a corner cupboard, as well as cornicework from the same period.
Local climate
The Chestnuts 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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