Ridgnall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Medieval House.
Ridgnall
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-belfry-wagtail
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Ridgnall, Church Street, Great Horkesley, CO6 4AN
- OS grid reference
- TL 982 324
- Coordinates
- 51.95486, 0.88376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ridgnall is a 16th century house located on Church Street in Great Horkesley. It is timber framed and consists of two storeys arranged in a T-plan. It is unclear if both parts of the building are from the same period. The east-west range has been heavily renovated and features a plastered wall and a peg-tiled roof that is ridged and gabled, with a small gable facing south. The south front has pairs of small-paned hornless sash windows, with one pair of round-headed windows positioned centrally at stair height. There is a large bay window at the east end of the south front on the ground floor, and the building has three red brick chimney stacks. The stem of the T is a two-bay range that includes roll-moulded joists, heavily jowled posts, and halved scarfs with bridled butts.
Local climate
Ridgnall 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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