Milepost Outside Colne Place is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1994. Milepost. 1 related planning application.
Milepost Outside Colne Place
- WRENN ID
- floating-gutter-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1994
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Outside Colne Place, High Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2RB
- OS grid reference
- TL 860 288
- Coordinates
- 51.92713, 0.70426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milepost outside Colne Place is an early 19th century cast iron structure. It is shaped like a cube that has been sliced diagonally, tapering towards the ground. The top face features a raised metal inscription that reads "Earls Colne" and "London 51 1/2 miles." The left side displays the distance to "Colchester 10 miles," while the right side indicates "Halstead 4 miles."
Local climate
Milepost Outside Colne Place sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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