Old Bouchiers Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Sixteenth Century House. 2 related planning applications.

Old Bouchiers Hall

WRENN ID
hallowed-bronze-wagtail
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
Period
Sixteenth Century
Address
Old Bouchiers Hall, Old Bourchiers Hall, New Road, Aldham, CO6 3QU
OS grid reference
TL 915 264
Coordinates
51.90334, 0.78273
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Bourchiers Hall is a 16th-century house located on New Road, Aldham, and originally built on a returned L-plan, as shown on a 17th-century estate map. The northeast range is constructed in red brick, now painted, using a mixed English and Flemish bond. It features a tall gambrel roof, hipped at the east end and gabled at the west, with a bold modillion cornice along the eaves. A projecting string course runs at the first floor level, supporting a range of four pairs of eight-pane hornless sash windows above, and three matching windows below. A front door of around 1800 is set within a wide wooden case. The southwest ranges are of later brick in a Flemish bond pattern, and have ridged and hipped roofs covered in peg tiles. These ranges contain four sashes with margin bars, and no panes, alongside four ground-floor windows beneath brick arches.

Inside, a notable fire surround is made of wood and gesso, decorated with lion masks, egg and tongue motifs, and festoons. There is also some low panelling and a bolection chair rail. Some studded walling suggests a possible earlier entirely timber-framed building.

Local climate

Old Bouchiers Hall 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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