Black House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
Black House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-garret-starling
- 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
- Black House, Bures Road, Wormingford, CO6 3AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 933 314
- Coordinates
- 51.9482, 0.8118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black House is a 17th-century, two-storey timber-framed house with attics, located on Bures Road in Wormingford. The building features weatherboarded walls and has a range of three windows. The front door is off-center, with a set of 36-pane casements to the left and six-pane sashes to the right. On the first storey, there are three pairs of two-pane casements and three flat-topped dormers in the roof. The roof is gambrelled and clad with red machine tiles, and there is a red brick chimney stack on the rear slope. This house was formerly the workhouse associated with the Poor Act of 1601.
Local climate
Black House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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