Glebe House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. House.
Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- grim-oriel-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glebe House, Spring Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 971 253
- Coordinates
- 51.89164, 0.86348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe House is an early 19th century Gothic-style house located on Spring Lane in Lexden. The building is constructed of brick with a rough cast finish and stands two storeys tall, featuring a modern attic storey. The facade includes three windows on either side of a central door on the ground floor, and above, there are five windows, all with pointed heads, including the door. The house has two attic dormers and is topped with a hipped slate roof. There are also modern additions to the property.
Local climate
Glebe House 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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