Abberton Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Bakery. 1 related planning application.
Abberton Bakery
- WRENN ID
- under-loft-meadow
- 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
- Bakery
- Address
- Abberton Bakery, Layer Road, CO5 7NH
- OS grid reference
- TM 004 190
- Coordinates
- 51.83429, 0.9074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abberton Bakery is a mid-19th century building constructed of painted brick with a grey slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features a two-window range of double-hung vertical sliding sashes. The building is also adorned with painted brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Abberton Bakery 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 — 1 application
- 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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