The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C16 Residential. 1 related planning application.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- second-rafter-peregrine
- 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
- Residential
- Address
- The Old House, Hall Road, Mount Bures
- OS grid reference
- TL 906 327
- Coordinates
- 51.96051, 0.77283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a 16th century timber-framed and plastered house located on Hall Road in Mount Bures. It has two storeys and features a jettied front wall. The central front door is situated on the ground floor, accompanied by a pair of 6-pane sliding sash windows on the left. The first storey has a wide, much altered window in the center and another pair of 6-pane sliding sash windows at the right end. The roof is ridged, gabled on the left side, and hipped on the right. A red brick chimney stack with three sloping steps is positioned against the gabled end. The building has seen little alteration over the years.
Local climate
The Old House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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