Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Church. 7 related planning applications.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- watchful-flue-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, School Hill, Birch, CO2 0LZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 199
- Coordinates
- 51.84429, 0.82034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul was built in 1850 by Teulon. It is constructed of flint with limestone dressings and features a red plain tile roof with crested ridges. The church includes a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. The west front has two gables and is adorned with traceried windows in the decorated style. The west tower, which is 110 feet high, is topped with a shingled broach spire. The windows throughout the church have two-centred arches and tracery that matches the west front. The gabled south porch has a simple five-cant roof, while all other roofs are framed with side purlins, arch bracing, and a ridge pole, with principal rafters that have collars and are braced to corbels.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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 — 4 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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