Cart Lodge to North West of Blind Knights is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1979. Cart lodge.

Cart Lodge to North West of Blind Knights

WRENN ID
distant-stone-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1979
Type
Cart lodge
Address
Cart Lodge to North West of Blind Knights, Field Farm Lane, Layer-De-La-Haye
OS grid reference
TL 975 190
Coordinates
51.83542, 0.8666
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cart Lodge to the north-west of Blind Knights is a late 16th century timber-framed structure featuring a red plain tile gabled roof. The building consists of four bays with a hay loft above, supported by stop-chamfered tie beams and hanging knees that are secured with forelock bolts.

Local climate

Cart Lodge to North West of Blind Knights sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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