Chatley is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A Post-Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Chatley

WRENN ID
strange-eave-sparrow
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
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
Chatley, Main Road, Great and Little Leighs, CM3 1NE
OS grid reference
TL 725 166
Coordinates
51.8221, 0.50257
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chatley is a former post office, originally built as a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage, with an 18th-century addition at the east end. The building features a thatched roof and has a gabled dormer on the south side that is dated 1730. It is one storey with attics and has casement windows with leaded lights. The roof is tiled and includes two gabled dormers and one sloping roofed dormer on the south side.

Local climate

Chatley 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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