1 and 2, The Square, Coast Road is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
1 and 2, The Square, Coast Road
- WRENN ID
- western-trefoil-hawk
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 2, The Square, Coast Road, West Mersea
- OS grid reference
- TM 006 125
- Coordinates
- 51.77532, 0.90653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 2 The Square, located on Coast Road in West Mersea, are a range of 18th-century cottage tenements. The cottages are one storey high with attics and are framed in timber, covered with painted weatherboards. They feature a gambrel roof with peg tiles and have two chimneys at the ends. On the left side, there are four gabled dormers with casement windows, while the right side has small-pane sash windows. The ground floor includes two plain doors topped with vernacular pediments on scrolls, two pairs of small-pane sashes on the right, a sliding sash window on the left, and one pair of modern sash windows.
Local climate
1 and 2, The Square, Coast Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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