56, WEST STOCKWELL STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House.
56, WEST STOCKWELL STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- solitary-pedestal-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56, WEST STOCKWELL STREET (See details for further address information), CO1 1HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 995 253
- Coordinates
- 51.8913, 0.89881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 56 on West Stockwell Street, which also includes No 2 Walter's Yard, is a 16th-century building with two storeys and attics, featuring tiled roofs. The east front has two gables, with the north gable being smaller. The upper storey projects at two different levels and has a moulded bressumer on the main block. There is an extension at the rear dating from around 1700. The house has been reconditioned and now has modern windows. Numbers 53 to 62, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.
Local climate
56, WEST STOCKWELL STREET (See details for further address information) 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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