The Bunches is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
The Bunches
- WRENN ID
- shifting-fireplace-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Bunches, Ford Street, Aldham, CO6 3PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 269
- Coordinates
- 51.90799, 0.79038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bunches is a house from the 18th century and earlier, located on Aldham Ford Street. It is timber framed and plastered, standing two storeys high. The front features a range of six sash windows with two panes each on the first storey and five on the ground storey. The front door is positioned south of centre, set within a pedimented case that includes triglyphs and fluted pilasters. The roof is ridged and hipped, covered with peg tiles, and has a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The front elevation is marked to resemble ashlar.
Local climate
The Bunches sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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