West House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
West House
- WRENN ID
- strange-corbel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- West House, West Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9DE
- OS grid reference
- TM 037 215
- Coordinates
- 51.85556, 0.95784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House is a 17th or 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on West Street in Wivenhoe. The building was altered in the early 19th century and features a ridged, gabled roof covered with peg tiles. The entrance door is on the left and consists of six fielded panels. The ground floor includes one modern casement window and a pair of small-paned sash windows. Above, there is one modern sash window and one small-paned sash window located at the top right.
Local climate
West House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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