The Council House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1982. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
The Council House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cellar-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Council House, Old Road, Frinton and Walton
- OS grid reference
- TM 235 197
- Coordinates
- 51.83176, 1.24358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Council House, originally called The Wick, is a building from around 1700 that now serves as council offices. It features a 1930s extension to the right and rear wings. The structure is made of red brick and has a red plain tiled roof, with two red brick chimney stacks on the left. The building stands two storeys tall with attics and has three gabled dormers on the left side. It has a moulded wooden eaves cornice and a central band. The first floor has eight small paned vertically sliding sash windows with segmental arches, while the ground floor has seven similar windows, but with glazed margins and horns. The central entrance door is a six-panelled, two-light design, flanked by pilasters with moulded capitals and bases, and features a frieze and a dentilled soffit beneath a flat canopy.
Local climate
The Council House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% 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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