Wisemans is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Wisemans
- WRENN ID
- high-bastion-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wisemans, 270, London Road, Stanway
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 244
- Coordinates
- 51.88507, 0.823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisemans, located at 270 London Road on the north side in Stanway, is a 16th-century house that features a timber frame clad in red brick. The building has two storeys and is topped with a red plain tile roof that is hipped at the east end. It has a three-window range with modern casements that include glazing bars. The entrance boasts an early 19th-century door surround with moulded architraves. The house retains an original central chimney stack, along with a west chimney stack that has diagonal shafts. The east end of the building is weatherboarded. There are extensions from the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries at the rear.
Local climate
Wisemans sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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