1, The Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.

1, The Street

WRENN ID
forgotten-kitchen-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1965
Type
House
Address
1, The Street, Messing-Cum-Inworth
OS grid reference
TL 897 189
Coordinates
51.83722, 0.75267
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 1 The Street is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has a two-storey gabled wing at the west end, while the main range consists of one storey with attics. It includes a two-window range of 18th-century horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a 19th-century lean-to extension with one window range, along with 19th-century and modern chimney stacks.

Local climate

1, The Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 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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