Stour Books is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
Stour Books
- WRENN ID
- old-tower-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Stour Books, 8, South Street, Manningtree, CO11 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TM 106 318
- Coordinates
- 51.94533, 1.06368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building in Manningtree's South Street is a shop with a facade dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of red brick with a red plain tiled roof and a red brick chimney stack on the right side. A parapet runs along the top, with a decorative band set beneath it. The building is two storeys high. The first floor features two vertically sliding sash windows with moulded surrounds, each set within a gauged brick arch. The central shop front is from the 19th century, featuring end pilasters, prominent moulded brackets supporting carved finials, a fascia, and a central stepped approach to a recessed door. Flanking the recessed door are three-light windows angled towards the entrance, with panels set below the windows. A recessed 20th-century door is located on the left side.
Local climate
Stour Books receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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