Little Horkesley Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Hall.

Little Horkesley Hall

WRENN ID
dusted-rubble-ebony
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
Hall
Address
Little Horkesley Hall, Kings Road
OS grid reference
TL 960 318
Coordinates
51.95077, 0.85072
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Horkesley Hall is an 18th-century building located on Kings Road in Little Horkesley. The north front features gault brick and stone, designed in a rectangular plan with a prominent Giant Doric portico and a flat entablature at its center. The façade includes an anthemion frieze, dentils, and nine fluted columns, along with four pilasters against the wall. To the left of the center, there are double doors with glazed eight-pane tops and panelled bases. The west side has two blanked windows, three Regency sashes with three vertical parts on the first storey behind the portico, and one pair of modernized ten-pane casements. A string course at first floor level is mutuled and pegged, with window heads made of gauged gaults in straight arches. There are three pairs of matching windows on the ground storey to the west of the doors. An extension to the west has been demolished, but a stone dentil cornice runs around the parapet.

The east front of the house features a semi-circular bow window that is two storeys high, with three-part bowed sashes consisting of three panes over six panes. It has a patera on stucco cases and a dentilled cornice. The sashes on the left and right have three over four panes on the first storey and six over six panes on the ground storey, with a rusticated stone plinth and a mutuled string at the first floor.

Local climate

Little Horkesley Hall 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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