Guinea Pig Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Guinea Pig Hall
- WRENN ID
- veiled-banister-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Guinea Pig Hall, 61, Runwell Road, Wickford, SS11 7HL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 751 939
- Coordinates
- 51.61758, 0.52804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guinea Pig Hall is a small 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottage located at No 61 Runwell Road in Wickford. The cottage has one storey and features a three-window range with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. Its roof is thatched and hipped, topped with a chimney stack that has a small diagonally set shaft. Guinea Pig Hall, along with Nos 61, 65, and 67, forms a group.
Local climate
Guinea Pig Hall 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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