117 and 118, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.

117 and 118, High Street

WRENN ID
iron-hall-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1971
Type
Commercial
Address
117 and 118, High Street, CO1 1SZ
OS grid reference
TL 997 252
Coordinates
51.88991, 0.90098
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This property comprises two buildings, numbers 117 and 118, on High Street. The buildings likely incorporate elements from the 16th century, with later alterations and a modern facade. Number 117 has a cement-rendered front and a modern shop front on the ground floor, featuring four modern sash windows with glazing bars, and two modern box dormers in the attic. Number 118 displays a painted brick facade with an eaves dentil cornice and a shaped cornice below the parapet, a modern shop front, two 19th-century sash windows above, and a central chimney stack. A small brick wing with a hipped roof extends from the rear. The buildings are part of a group including the George Hotel.

Local climate

117 and 118, High 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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  • 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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