Little Oliver's is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
Little Oliver's
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-soffit-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Oliver's, Oliver's Lane, Stanway, CO2 0HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 967 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85717, 0.85502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Oliver's is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, constructed using timber framing and later weatherboarding and plaster. It has a red plain tile roof and a gable at the north end. The front façade features a three-window arrangement with double-hung sash windows, including glazing bars. The southern windows have sidelights. A 19th-century, ground floor bay window is present at the north end, incorporating sash windows and a slate roof. A flat canopied doorcase is detailed with moulded pilasters. The house has a double-range plan and is characterised by 18th-century red brick chimney stacks at each end.
Local climate
Little Oliver's sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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