Wakes Colne House 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.
Wakes Colne House
- WRENN ID
- woven-hearth-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
- Wakes Colne House, Wakes Street, CO6 2BZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 888 286
- Coordinates
- 51.92472, 0.74572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakes Colne House is a 17th century timber-framed house that has been cased in gault brick. It forms one wing of a large house arranged in a T-plan and features double ridged roofs that are slated and hipped on the longest range. The older section of the house has a three-window range of small pane hornless sashes on the first storey. The prominent front door is centrally located on the ground storey at the east side. Additionally, there is a three-storey 19th century tower at the north-west corner, which has heavily dentilled eaves.
Local climate
Wakes Colne House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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