University of Essex Sailing Club is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Former sail loft. 2 related planning applications.
University of Essex Sailing Club
- WRENN ID
- second-eave-owl
- 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
- Former sail loft
- Address
- University of Essex Sailing Club, 45, Waterside, Brightlingsea, CO7 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 085 162
- Coordinates
- 51.80628, 1.02388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The University of Essex Sailing Club, formerly known as Pannell and Hibbs Sail Loft, is a former sail loft dating from the 19th century. The building is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a grey slate roof and features bargeboards with a finial. It has two storeys and a loft. The ground floor includes a shop front with central double glazed doors flanked by three-light windows on either side. The first floor has small paned vertically sliding sash windows and central double doors, with a single window in the loft that has glazing bars. This exterior is depicted in a postcard from the late 19th century. A viewing balcony supported by arch-braced cast iron columns was added in the early 20th century when the building transitioned to a yacht club. Internally, the frame remains intact.
Local climate
University of Essex Sailing Club 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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