Gatehouse North of Little Horkesley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Gatehouse.
Gatehouse North of Little Horkesley Hall
- WRENN ID
- carved-merlon-sienna
- 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
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse North of Little Horkesley Hall, Kings Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 319
- Coordinates
- 51.9511, 0.85022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse north of Little Horkesley Hall is a small, square plan lodge built in the 19th century. It has two storeys and features a Regency sash window on the first storey. The building has three bays with pilastered gault brick returns, two square columns, and a flat entablature. At the center, there are two fluted Doric columns framing a rusticated arch. To the left and right of the arch are Egyptian windows, both of which are louvred. The gatehouse is topped with mutuled eaves and a cornice, and it has two hipped extensions to the west at the north and south ends.
Local climate
Gatehouse North of Little Horkesley Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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