Essex County Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. Hospital. 6 related planning applications.
Essex County Hospital
- WRENN ID
- pale-baluster-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Essex County Hospital, Lexden Road, CO3 3NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 989 248
- Coordinates
- 51.88708, 0.88916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Essex County Hospital is an original block built in 1819 by Mark Greystone Thompson. The structure is made of grey gault brick and features a central block that is three storeys high with three sash windows that have glazing bars. It includes a two-storey Ionic porch and has two-storey wings with two windows on either side, leading to projecting two-storey pavilions. The roofs are hipped and covered with slate.
Local climate
Essex County Hospital 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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
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