2, High Road is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1981. House.
2, High Road
- WRENN ID
- rough-lime-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1981
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 645 819
- Coordinates
- 51.51269, 0.36932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 High Road is an 18th-century house constructed of red brick with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range of double-hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. The windows on the first floor are from the 18th century, while those on the ground floor date to the late 18th or early 19th century. The original doorway is topped with a rectangular fanlight. There is a red brick chimney stack on the end wall. This building was formerly known as "Anson's School" in the 18th century and has a brick inscribed "R. ROSS 1776."
Local climate
2, High Road 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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