Prince of Wales Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Public house.
Prince of Wales Public House
- WRENN ID
- distant-lime-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Prince of Wales Public House, the Street, Messing-Cum-Inworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 880 179
- Coordinates
- 51.82877, 0.72723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Prince of Wales Public House is an early 19th-century establishment located in Messing-cum-Inworth. It is constructed of red brick and features a red plain tile hipped roof. The building stands two storeys high, with single-storey extensions at both ends. The façade includes a window arrangement of 1:2:1, consisting of double-hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars set in gauged arches. A modern gabled porch is present, which has a blocked window above it.
Local climate
Prince of Wales Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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