Beech House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1967. House.
Beech House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-jamb-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech House, 5, Maldon Road, Great Baddow
- OS grid reference
- TL 728 051
- Coordinates
- 51.71851, 0.50046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech House is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Maldon Road in Great Baddow. It features a cross wing at the west end, adorned with moulded bargeboards on the gable and the remains of a pendant. The house has two storeys and a two-window range, consisting of double-hung sashes with glazing bars and one casement window on the first storey. The roof is tiled and includes a square chimney stack with four octagonal shafts set on a moulded base, with the shafts being cement rendered.
Local climate
Beech House 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
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