72, Church Road is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.

72, Church Road

WRENN ID
haunted-truss-tide
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
72, Church Road, Fordham, CO6 3NJ
OS grid reference
TL 927 281
Coordinates
51.91817, 0.80191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 72 Church Road is a timber-framed house dating from around 1650. It features a T-plan layout with a crosswing at the south end, which has a lean-to along its south wall. The main range extends north for two bays and has one storey with an attic, including two gabled dormers. All elevations are rendered, and the roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. There are front doors to both the wing and the main range. The ground storey of the main range has one small hornless sash window, while the wing has a matching window on the ground storey and another above. A red brick chimney stack is located at the return of the roofs.

Local climate

72, Church Road 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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