The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-sandstone-yarrow
- 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 Old House, Boxted Road, Langham
- OS grid reference
- TM 026 332
- Coordinates
- 51.96084, 0.94854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a 16th-century timber-framed building with a plaster exterior, designed in an H-plan layout. It features ridged and gabled roofs, with the hall ridge being higher than the wings, all covered with peg tiles. A red brick chimney stack is located near the center of the hall and another on the rear slope. The rear of the house includes several gables and dormers. The windows consist of modern steel and wooden casements.
Local climate
The Old House 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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