72 and 73, Duke Street is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

72 and 73, Duke Street

WRENN ID
moated-finial-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
House
Address
72 and 73, Duke Street, CM1 1JY
OS grid reference
TL 706 069
Coordinates
51.73537, 0.4704
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

72 and 73 Duke Street is a late 18th-century building that stands three stories tall and features a three-window range. The upper floors have tripartite sash windows, while the ground floor has two pairs of small-paned sashes. Centrally located are two front door cases with semi-circular half columns that are fluted. Above the doors are semi-circular fanlights, and the cornice is adorned with an entablature decorated with swags and urns. The building has a slated roof with a deep eaves overhang supported by eight pairs of bold modillions.

Local climate

72 and 73, Duke Street 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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