39, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.
39, High Street
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lintel-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 39, High Street, Brightlingsea, CO7 0AQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 167
- Coordinates
- 51.8106, 1.02787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 39 is an 18th-century house located on the north side of High Street in Brightlingsea. The building is timber framed and plastered with ashlar lines, topped with a grey slate roof that features pierced ridge tiles and chimney stacks on both the right and left sides. It has two storeys and attics, with a rear range and two flat-headed dormers. The front facade includes a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. The central door, dating from the 20th century, has a fluted surround, frieze, and a moulded flat canopy.
Inside, the house features 18th-century red brick fireplaces with iron soffit ties in the kitchen and one front room, along with an 18th-century firesurround that includes a patera and a mantel shelf. The open string staircase is adorned with turned balusters and mouldings. Other interior details include chamfered bridging joists and panelled doors with moulded surrounds.
Local climate
39, High Street 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 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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