The Grays is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Grays
- WRENN ID
- muted-basalt-brook
- 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 Grays, 16, Lexden Road, West Bergholt, CO6 3BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 281
- Coordinates
- 51.9176, 0.84709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grays is a house built around 1840-1850, constructed of red brick with gault quoins and window surrounds. It has two storeys and three bays, featuring a slate-clad, hip-ended roof with two red brick chimney stacks at the north and south ends. The central entrance has a door with six fielded panels and a rectangular fanlight above, flanked by two circular iron columns and a flat dentilled entablature. On the ground floor, there are a pair of small hornless sashes in exposed boxes to the left and right, and three matching sashes on the first storey.
Local climate
The Grays sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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