160-164, Lexden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
160-164, Lexden Road
- WRENN ID
- odd-flue-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 160-164, Lexden Road, CO3 4BZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 967 251
- Coordinates
- 51.88978, 0.8582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 15th-century timber-framed and plastered building on Lexden Road, originally identified as numbers 126, 128, and 130. It features cross wings extending from both the east and west ends, with an overhang on the front of each wing. The building has two storeys and a symmetrical façade of three windows to a pair. Modern three-light lattice casement windows have been introduced. An original king-post remains in the roof. The roof is tiled. Numbers 160 to 164 form a group with numbers 221 to 233 on the opposite side of the road.
Local climate
160-164, Lexden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 17 transactions since 1996
- 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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