Windells 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.
Windells
- WRENN ID
- errant-newel-larch
- 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
- Windells, Earls Colne Road, Great Tey, CO6 1AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 879 265
- Coordinates
- 51.90617, 0.73084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windells is a late 16th-century house with a later addition, located on Earls Colne Road. It is a two-part structure with an additional bay added at the west end. The house is timber-framed and has two storeys, topped with a ridged and gabled roof that is clad with slate. The front elevation is pebble dashed and features marked panels. There are sets of three casement windows, with three on the ground storey and two on the first storey. The front door, which has six fielded panels and a wrought iron arabesque porch, is now off-centre due to the addition. A chimney stack, rebuilt around 1800, is made of red brick and has four shafts arranged in a saltire pattern. At the west end, there is a one-storey extension with a slate lean-to roof.
Local climate
Windells sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- 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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