The Armoury 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.
The Armoury
- WRENN ID
- haunted-wattle-heron
- 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
- The Armoury, Armoury Road, West Bergholt, CO6 3JP
- OS grid reference
- TL 971 277
- Coordinates
- 51.91379, 0.86539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century house with 18th-century additions, forming an L-shaped plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a red brick front on the north side. It is two storeys high, with several roof forms: ridged, gabled, hipped, and covered with pegtiled tiles. There are three brick chimneys: one at the return, another at the south-east end, and a third inside the return. The north front has a range of sash windows; the upper floor windows have small panes, while the ground floor windows have two panes each, all set within segmental stucco surrounds. A central front door is positioned between the ground floor windows. The door has a Regency overlight, casing, and hood. The east frontage, dating to circa 1750, features a parapet and a central front door with a pedimented casing, dentils, and consoles. The door itself has six fielded panels.
Local climate
The Armoury 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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