Price's House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1973. House. 6 related planning applications.
Price's House
- WRENN ID
- open-rotunda-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Price's House, Bethany Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9TS
- OS grid reference
- TM 039 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85441, 0.96008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Price’s House is a circa 1600 house located on Bethany Street, Wivenhoe. The building is constructed of red brick, with a plastered front wall that has an ashlar-marked appearance. The roof is ridged, gabled, and covered with machine tiles, featuring a boldly coved plaster eaves. The house has a square plan and inset chimney stacks in the gables. The front elevation has three pairs of small-paned sash windows on the first storey, and two pairs on the ground storey, which are not aligned with the upper windows. A central door is present with four panels, contained within a reeded case and surmounted by a flat hood.
Local climate
Price's 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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