Moonbeam Cottage Thatched 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.
Moonbeam Cottage Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-vestry-shade
- 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
- Moonbeam Cottage Thatched Cottage, Hornells Corner, Great and Little Leighs, CM3 1QW
- OS grid reference
- TL 719 187
- Coordinates
- 51.84117, 0.49442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moonbeam Cottage is an 18th or early 19th century timber-framed and plastered cottage, standing one storey high with attics. It has casement windows. The thatched roof has two dormer windows, and is hipped at the north end and half-hipped at the south. Moonbeam Cottage forms a group with Thatched Cottage and the Cottage.
Local climate
Moonbeam Cottage Thatched 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 2001
- 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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