Messing Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
Messing Lodge
- WRENN ID
- nether-hammer-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Messing Lodge, Lodge Road, Messing-Cum-Inworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 901 196
- Coordinates
- 51.84274, 0.75828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Messing Lodge is a late 16th century timber-framed house, with a 17th century extension. The building features timber framing and plaster, topped with a red plain tile roof. It has two storeys and an L-shaped plan. The front range is divided into two stages and includes a total of four windows, which are 19th century double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. There are modern casements on the sides and rear of the house. At the rear, there are two gabled dormers, and the end wing has a hipped roof.
Local climate
Messing Lodge 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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