St George's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. Public hall.
St George's Hall
- WRENN ID
- tall-bailey-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Public hall
- Address
- St George's Hall, 156a, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 994 252
- Coordinates
- 51.8902, 0.8972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St George's Hall, built in 1851, is a public hall located on the north side of High Street. The building is constructed of red brick and features an apsidal south end, with a small apse at the north end. It has a basement and tall arched windows. Inside, there is a musicians' gallery at the south end. The hall is topped with a slate roof. St George's Hall, along with Nos 156 to 158 and Albert Hall, forms a group.
Local climate
St George's Hall 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings