37, 39, 39a, Head Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1970. A Late C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
37, 39, 39a, Head Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-facade-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1970
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 993 250
- Coordinates
- 51.8884, 0.89602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 37, 39, and 39A on Head Street is a timber-framed and plastered house featuring a late 18th-century red brick front. The building has a central semi-circular Doric porch and a two-storey bow window above. It stands three storeys high with cellars, and the roofs are tiled and hipped. The façade includes a five-window range with 19th-century double-hung sash windows set in plain reveals. A parapet extends around the central bow, complemented by a moulded band below. No. 37 includes a ground floor shop with an arched wooden architrave.
Local climate
37, 39, 39a, Head 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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