Elm 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.
Elm House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-facade-kestrel
- 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
- Elm House, Spring Gardens Road, Chappel, CO6 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 900 283
- Coordinates
- 51.9214, 0.76199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm House is an early 19th-century building constructed of gault brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It stands two storeys high and features a range of three windows. The ground floor has a central porch with two oak doors that have fielded panels, topped by a rectangular fanlight. On either side of the porch are semi-hexagonal bow windows with clear sashes and flat leaded roofs. The first storey has tripartite windows, and the building is adorned with wide eaves and lion-mask troughing. The roof is hipped and slated, with flat dormers and four gault chimney stacks.
Local climate
Elm House 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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