Sturgeons is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.
Sturgeons
- WRENN ID
- proud-cornice-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sturgeons, Lane Road, Wakes Colne, CO6 2BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 890 301
- Coordinates
- 51.93799, 0.74939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sturgeons is a house dating from the 16th to 17th century, featuring a timber-framed structure with one and a half storeys. The walls are roughcast, and the roof is ridged with gables and covered in peg tiles. The north slope of the roof has two gabled dormers, and there is a red brick chimney stack located east of the center, with an additional chimney added to the west gable end. The east gable includes one sash window.
Local climate
Sturgeons 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 2016
- 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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