197, Lexden Road is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1959. House. 1 related planning application.
197, Lexden Road
- WRENN ID
- former-rampart-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- 197, Lexden Road, CO3 4BH
- OS grid reference
- TL 971 251
- Coordinates
- 51.89031, 0.86327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 197 Lexden Road is a picturesque 16th-century house located opposite the churchyard. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a timber-framed and plastered structure with tiled roofs. It includes one gabled dormer and cross wings on the east and west sides. The upper storey projects on the south front of the west cross wing, and the gable also projects. There is a central chimney stack with four octagonal shafts that have been rebuilt. The house has undergone some restoration and has modern windows, along with bargeboards on the gable.
Local climate
197, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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