68, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
68, High Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-gable-soot
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 68, High Street, Brightlingsea, CO7 0AQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 167
- Coordinates
- 51.81034, 1.02937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located on the south side of High Street, Brightlingsea. It is constructed with a timber frame and is clad in weatherboards. The roof is red tiled, with a gambrel shape and a gable facing the road. The cottage is one storey high with attics. It has a single range with small-paned, two-light casement windows with pentice boards above, visible on the front gable. Two similar windows are found on the left return, and there is a 20th-century door. The building is listed for its group value, contributing to the character of the street.
Local climate
68, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- 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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