The Wheelwrights House 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 Wheelwrights House
- WRENN ID
- dark-step-ebony
- 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 Wheelwrights House, Straight Road, Boxted, CO4 5QN
- OS grid reference
- TM 003 322
- Coordinates
- 51.95283, 0.91404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheelwrights House is an 18th-century house constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It has a ridged, gabled roof covered in slate with eaves and troughing, and inset red brick chimneys at each gable end. The building is aligned north-south. The central front door, located on the ground storey, is within a case featuring triglyphs, an over-panel, and a leaded flat hood. It has panelled reveals and a six-panelled door. Flanking the door are pairs of hornless sash windows with glazing bars, each set under a stucco segmental arch. A range of three matching windows is situated on the first storey.
Local climate
The Wheelwrights 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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