23, Mersea Road is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Public house.

23, Mersea Road

WRENN ID
upper-buttress-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Public house
OS grid reference
TL 999 246
Coordinates
51.8843, 0.90347
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 23 Mersea Road is an early to mid-19th century corner building that was formerly a public house. It stands three storeys tall and is constructed of painted brick with a slate roof. The main front features a three-window range, with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars on the upper storeys. The ground floor on both fronts has an entrance flanked by windows, all set beneath a moulded cornice. The corner of the building is rounded at the ground floor, with corbelling above the angle.

Local climate

23, Mersea Road 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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