Shipwrights is a Grade II* listed building in the Castle Point local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1979. A Modernist House.
Shipwrights
- WRENN ID
- hushed-pinnacle-moth
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1979
- Type
- House
- Period
- Modernist
- Address
- Shipwrights, 241, Benfleet Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 795 868
- Coordinates
- 51.55189, 0.58807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shipwrights is a house built around 1937 by Wells Coates for the Director of Ekco. The walls are rendered and painted, topped with a flat roof featuring a curved superstructure and a roof shelter. It has a central chimney stack and is two storeys high. An angled staircase on the left leads to a full-width balcony on the first floor, which has metal rails, central two-light metal doors, and a two-light window with a door to the right. A staircase on the right side leads to the roof. The ground floor has two and three-light windows, with a three-light door to the right. The rear (south) face features a recessed ground floor supported by reinforced concrete piloti, with both floors fully glazed. The piloti supports also extend to the left (east) side. In 1937, Wells Coates was designing radio cabinets for Ekco, along with their factory in Southend-on-Sea. The design shows the influence of Le Corbusier, particularly Villa Poisey.
Local climate
Shipwrights receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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