73a and 73b, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1959. Commercial.
73a and 73b, High Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-marble-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1959
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 252
- Coordinates
- 51.88981, 0.90504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
73A and 73B on High Street is a 17th-century building that was refronted in brick in the late 18th century and has undergone modern alterations to the ground floor. The structure has three storeys and cellars, featuring heavy ceiling beams. The front is topped with a coping that has three hipped gables behind it. It has a three-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 67 to 75 (consecutive) and No 1 Queen Street.
Local climate
73a and 73b, High Street 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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