51 and 53, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1973. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
51 and 53, West Street
- WRENN ID
- frozen-baluster-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1973
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 51 and 53, West Street, SS4 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 875 905
- Coordinates
- 51.58218, 0.70497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 51 and 53 on West Street are two shops that likely date from the 19th century or possibly earlier. They feature a plastered front and a red plain tiled gambrel roof, with a red brick chimney stack on the right. The buildings are one storey high with attics, and they have two large catslide dormers that contain vertically sliding sashes with horns.
For No. 51, there is a shop window on the left, flanked by pilasters with capitals, and a fascia above with a pentice strip. To the right, there is a 20th-century door with an original fanlight above, surrounded by a moulded surround and a pentice strip over.
No. 53 has pilasters on both the right and left sides, which have capitals and bases. It features a fascia with a moulded cornice that encloses a left-side 20th-century door, along with a pilaster and a window to the right.
Local climate
51 and 53, West Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 2022
- 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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