79 and 81, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1983. Cottages.
79 and 81, High Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-gravel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1983
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 79 and 81, High Street, Great Wakering
- OS grid reference
- TQ 945 874
- Coordinates
- 51.55279, 0.80521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 79 and 81 High Street are a pair of cottages dating from around 1700, with a 19th-century addition at the rear. They are constructed with a timber frame and have a pebble dash plaster finish, featuring rusticated quoins above weatherboarding. The cottages have a red plain tiled roof and a large central red brick chimney stack. They are two storeys high and have a two-window range consisting of small paned casements and vertically sliding sashes. The doorways on the right and left have simple surrounds with flat canopies supported by brackets. The left door is a 20th-century design, while the right door is vertically boarded.
Local climate
79 and 81, High Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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