Coveneys is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
Coveneys
- WRENN ID
- north-stair-crag
- 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
- Address
- Coveneys, Church Street, Great Horkesley, CO6 4AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 980 320
- Coordinates
- 51.95152, 0.88102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coveneys is a 16th-century house located in Great Horkesley. It is timber framed and plastered, standing two storeys high and featuring a T-plan layout with a long hipped range at the rear. The front elevation includes three modern casement windows on the first storey. The roofs are ridged and hipped, covered with peg tiles and have steeply pitched eaves. There is a modern gabled porch on the ground storey and a central red brick stack.
Local climate
Coveneys 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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