56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.

56, High Street

WRENN ID
outer-vestry-shade
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
56, High Street, Wivenhoe
OS grid reference
TM 038 216
Coordinates
51.85632, 0.95944
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

56 High Street is an 18th-century building with a timber frame and render. It features a gambrel roof covered with concrete tiles. The front has two flat dormers with small-paned casements. The door is plain, set in a moulded case, with a flat pair of small-paned sashes on either side. To the right, there is a bay with a corbelled, conoid roof and small-paned sashes.

Local climate

56, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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