56 and 57, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Commercial. 8 related planning applications.

56 and 57, High Street

WRENN ID
upper-entrance-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Commercial
Address
56 and 57, High Street, CM1 1DH
OS grid reference
TL 709 066
Coordinates
51.73204, 0.47466
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 56 and 57 on High Street are an early 18th-century building with a brick front elevation that has been painted. The structure is two stories tall with attics and features a four-window range, including two arched and lead-clad dormers. On the first floor, at the southern end, there are two windows that have pairs of six-pane sashes set in concealed boxes beneath gauged brick arches. The eaves cornice is dentilled, and the roof is ridged from north to south and covered with peg tiles. There is one chimney stack located at the south end of the building. The ground floor has modern shop fronts.

Local climate

56 and 57, High 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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