4-16, Abbeygate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1969. Terrace. 2 related planning applications.
4-16, Abbeygate Street
- WRENN ID
- last-paling-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1969
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 4-16, Abbeygate Street, CO2 7HB
- OS grid reference
- TL 996 249
- Coordinates
- 51.88717, 0.8996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of brick houses built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The northern and southern ends of the terrace project slightly forward. The houses are two storeys high and have seven dormers in the roof, which is tiled. There are fourteen window bays, each containing double-hung sash windows, some with glazing bars. Number 4 Abbeygate Street has a late 19th-century canted bay window on the ground floor. Numbers 4 to 16 (even) form a group with number 1 Stanwell Street.
Local climate
4-16, Abbeygate Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 11 transactions since 1996
- 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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