Green Acres 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.
Green Acres
- WRENN ID
- roaming-mortar-sorrel
- 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
- Green Acres, Foxes Lane, Eight Ash Green, CO3 8NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 926 256
- Coordinates
- 51.89615, 0.79824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Green Acres is a 16th-century house situated on an L-plan. It is timber-framed and plastered, with exposed studs and no external bracing visible. The crosswing comprises two bays and has a hipped roof, with a gablet and one gabled dormer window in the return. The roof is covered with peg tiles. A small brick chimney stack is present on the wing roof, and a larger one is positioned against the end gable of the hall range. The ground-floor windows are a mixture of old and modern replacements. Most of the existing windows are leaded casements. The roof has side purlins. A brick extension has been added to the hall end of the house.
Local climate
Green Acres 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions 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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