Crepping Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A Medieval Country house. 7 related planning applications.
Crepping Hall
- WRENN ID
- muted-window-meadow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Crepping Hall, Crepping Hall Road, Wakes Colne
- OS grid reference
- TL 909 284
- Coordinates
- 51.92186, 0.77469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crepping Hall is a large timber-framed house dating to the late 12th century. Originally an open hall with aisles, approximately two and a half bays of the original hall range remain, with substantial additions made over the centuries. The house is timber-framed and plastered. The front elevation features three hornless, south-pane sash windows on the first storey, with one similar window containing margin sashes centrally on the ground floor, and further sash windows to the left and right. A front door is situated in the return of the west crosswing, surmounted by a broken pediment supported on consoles. The roofs are largely peg-tiled and ridged and gabled, except for the crosswing, which has a hip roof. A crosswing was added to the west end around 1512, showing original evidence for an attic floor with haunched tenons. Both the hall and the crosswing retain crown post roofs: the hall roof is straight side braced and heavily sooted, while the crosswing roof displays curved edge-bracing. The hall tie beam is steeply cambered, with the first floor representing an Elizabethan-era addition. A ground-floor arched oak doorway dates to around 1314.
Local climate
Crepping Hall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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