Studio to South of the Queen's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Studio to South of the Queen's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- rough-pier-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Studio to South of the Queen's Head Public House, Ford Street, Aldham, CO6 3PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 269
- Coordinates
- 51.90824, 0.79066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a 16th-century studio located to the south of the Queen's Head Public House. It is timber framed and has a T-plan layout, consisting of two storeys. The front ground storey features a 19th-century shop front with a central door and 12-pane fixed windows on either side, all covered by a flat leaded hood. The first storey is rough-cast in panels and has a pair of 2-pane horned sash windows. The roof is peg-tiled, and there is a taller rear section that contains a former bakery with an oven made by Messrs Barton and Stearn of Sudbury.
Local climate
Studio to South of the Queen's Head Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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