Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-lantern-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, Chignall
- OS grid reference
- TL 667 115
- Coordinates
- 51.77821, 0.41594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a timber-framed and plastered house originally built in the 15th to 16th century. It features a cross wing at the west end and has been restored, renovated, and extensively altered with additional structures. The house now includes two cross wings, with the eastern one being original, both jettied on the upper storey and showcasing exposed timber framing. The roof is tiled and has two 20th-century gabled dormers on the central block.
Local climate
Church 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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