The Royal British Legion is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1973. A C17 Community building. 1 related planning application.
The Royal British Legion
- WRENN ID
- inner-flagstone-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1973
- Type
- Community building
- Address
- The Royal British Legion, the Quay, Wivenhoe, CO7 9BX
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85458, 0.95852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal British Legion is a 17th-century building located on The Quay in Wivenhoe. It is constructed of yellow and pink brick and has three storeys topped with a slate roof. A notable feature of the building is a large square bay that projects from the first floor, supported by wooden brackets.
Local climate
The Royal British Legion sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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