Little Simons is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.

Little Simons

WRENN ID
little-kitchen-plover
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
Cottage
Address
Little Simons, Old House Road, Great Horkesley
OS grid reference
TL 972 299
Coordinates
51.93275, 0.86827
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Simons is a 17th century cottage located on Old House Road in Great Horkesley. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a fly-hipped gambrel roof that is pegtiled. On the south slope of the roof, there are two flat-topped dormers with casement windows. A modern gabled porch is present, flanked by sets of three casements on both the left and right sides. The cottage has a square plan red brick chimney stack. Additionally, there is a larger two-storey red brick addition from around 1900 on the east side, which has a ridge and gabled roof topped with a central red brick chimney that has four diagonal shafts.

Local climate

Little Simons sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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