16 and 17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial. 10 related planning applications.
16 and 17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- roaming-panel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 16 and 17, High Street, CM1 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 709 067
- Coordinates
- 51.73361, 0.47385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 16 and 17 High Street is a 19th-century building made of grey gault brick, standing three stories tall. It features a parapet and three flat-topped dormer windows, each with pairs of 8-pane casements. The front elevation has three recessed bays with segmental round heads, and there is a similar arched through-passage at the center of the ground floor. The original windows are located in the two southern bays and consist of pairs of 8-pane sashes. The ground floor has modern shop fronts. The roof is a mansard style, covered with slate, and there is one chimney stack that is integral with the south wall.
Local climate
16 and 17, High Street 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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