Harborough Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. A C17 House. 5 related planning applications.
Harborough Hall
- WRENN ID
- ancient-lintel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Period
- C17
- Address
- Harborough Hall, Harborough Hall Road, Messing-Cum-Inworth, CO5 9UA
- OS grid reference
- TL 900 186
- Coordinates
- 51.83398, 0.75694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harborough Hall is a mid-17th century house located on Harborough Hall Road. Originally timber-framed, it was later plastered and faced with 19th century red brick. The house is two storeys high with a hipped roof covered in red plain tiles. It has a three-window front, featuring late 19th or early 20th century casement windows. An L-shaped wing extends to the south, with a gabled dormer on its east side. A central brick chimney stack dates back to the 17th century. The building follows a three-bay and chimney-bay plan. Internally, two original fireplaces remain, featuring stop-chamfered mantel beams with run-out stops, along with some original doors and general 18th century detailing.
Local climate
Harborough Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 19 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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