Martyns Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Martyns Croft
- WRENN ID
- south-ember-river
- 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
- Martyns Croft, Swan Street, Chappel, CO6 2DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 893 279
- Coordinates
- 51.91823, 0.75263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Martyns Croft is a small house that appears to date from the 18th century. It is timber framed and consists of a single long range that is one storey high, featuring chevron patterned plaster on the south end. The house has two pairs of 8-pane hornless sash windows on the north side and two pairs of 8-pane casement windows on the south side. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and there are two red brick chimney stacks. At the south end, there is a former black weatherboarded one-bay cottage that has a gabled peg-tiled roof and is now attached to the main structure.
Local climate
Martyns Croft 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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- 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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