Bell House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.

Bell House

WRENN ID
odd-merlon-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
House
Address
Bell House, Easthorpe Road, Copford, CO5 9HD
OS grid reference
TL 913 214
Coordinates
51.85925, 0.77667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell House is a 16th-century house that is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a two-window range with modern sash windows. There is a modern porch with a red plain tile lean-to roof. The original central chimney stack has been partly rebuilt. At the rear, there is an 18th-century extension in a parallel range.

Local climate

Bell 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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