185, Lexden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1970. House.
185, Lexden Road
- WRENN ID
- late-zinc-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1970
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 972 252
- Coordinates
- 51.89047, 0.8649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 185 Lexden Road is an early 19th-century building featuring a front made of grey gault brick with coping, and roofs covered in slates. The structure is two storeys high and has a four-window range of double-hung sashes, with glazing bars on the upper windows. The entrance includes a six-panel door with panelled reveals and a rectangular fanlight. There is a large modern wing addition at the rear.
Local climate
185, Lexden Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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