Donkey and Buskins Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Donkey and Buskins Public House
- WRENN ID
- stark-alcove-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Donkey and Buskins Public House, High Road, Layer-De-La-Haye, CO2 0HU
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 208
- Coordinates
- 51.85128, 0.86507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Donkey and Buskins Public House is an early 19th-century building constructed from plastered brick and topped with a grey slate hipped roof. It stands two storeys high and features a three-window range with double hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars. Modern shutters are present on the windows, and the front of the building is adorned with brick pilasters.
Local climate
Donkey and Buskins Public House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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