Wakes Colne Mill and House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Mill, house. 6 related planning applications.
Wakes Colne Mill and House
- WRENN ID
- lone-moulding-jay
- 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
- Mill, house
- Address
- Wakes Colne Mill and House, Colchester Road, CO6 2BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 892 284
- Coordinates
- 51.92198, 0.75022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakes Colne Mill and House is a watermill built around 1840, along with a house, located on the Colchester Road. The mill is constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, rising three stories with a four-window front. Centrally positioned doors are present on the first and second floors, above which is a jettied sack-hoist. The roof is hipped and gambrelled, covered in slate with lead flashings. All windows are fixed, with six panes of glass. A half door is located centrally on the ground storey. Inside the mill, three pairs of underdriven millstones are mounted on a hearse. To the south and east are two-storey ranges. A two-storey house, built around 1820, is situated on the north-east corner, constructed of gault brick and featuring a two-window range of marginally glazed sash windows on the first floor, with an angled bay window below.
Local climate
Wakes Colne Mill and 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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