Grey Friars is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. A C18 House. 7 related planning applications.
Grey Friars
- WRENN ID
- unlit-lintel-twilight
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grey Friars, High Street, CO1 1UG
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 252
- Coordinates
- 51.89006, 0.90586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grey Friars is an 18th-century building with a notable mid-18th century red brick front, which is dated 1755 on the rainwater head. The structure has two storeys, attics, and cellars, with hipped tiled roofs. The central front of the building slightly projects forward and features a pediment, an upper storey Venetian window supported by Ionic columns, and a central doorcase with attached Ionic columns. The parapet has a three-window range, with two-storey bay windows on either side of the central front. Large red brick wings, designed in the 18th-century style, were added to the east and west sides in 1910. The garden front, added in 1780, showcases a fine five-windowed bay flanked by Venetian windows on the first floor. The interior retains contemporary features. Grey Friars is part of a group that includes East Hill House, All Saints House, Hillcrest, Winsley House, and Nos 83 and 84.
Local climate
Grey Friars 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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