3a, Scheregate is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1959. House.
3a, Scheregate
- WRENN ID
- sharp-minaret-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1959
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 996 250
- Coordinates
- 51.88783, 0.89933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 3A on Scheregate is a corner house dating from 1656, featuring timber framing and plastering. It has a tiled roof and consists of two storeys, an attic, and cellars. The building has wings that extend to the north and west. The upper storey projects on the east and south sides of No 4, supported by a heavy diagonal bracket that springs from a capital carved with conventional foliage. There is also a carved bracket supporting the south projection and similar brackets at the angles of the gable on the east side. This property, along with Nos 1 to 4 on Scheregate, forms a group. The ground floor currently contains modern shops.
Local climate
3a, Scheregate 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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