Anchor House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Anchor House
- WRENN ID
- burning-vestry-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Anchor House, the Quay, Wivenhoe, CO7 9BY
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85472, 0.95834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anchor House is a house dating from around 1700, built on a rectangular plan. The front features ashlar marked plaster that has been painted. It is two storeys high and has a range of three windows. The roof is hipped and covered with peg tiles, and there are two red brick chimneys, one at each end.
The ground floor has a central door with a glazed top, set within a fluted case that includes a dentilled pediment and a fanlight. On the left side, there is a semi-hexagonal bay window with small-paned sash windows that reaches two storeys high. The right side features a full-height bay with dentilled cornices and a smaller semi-hexagonal bay window with small-paned sashes. Additionally, there are two sets of small-paned sash windows on the first storey.
Local climate
Anchor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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