Marks Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.
Marks Gate
- WRENN ID
- stony-lime-heron
- 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
- Marks Gate, Plummers Road, Fordham, CO6 3NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 293
- Coordinates
- 51.92885, 0.80746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marks Gate is a 16th-century house originally built as a single storey with attics, later extended to form a T-shaped plan. The exterior walls are rendered, and the roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with thatch. The original part of the house has windows consisting of sets of three casements, and a single eyebrow dormer on the east-facing return wall.
Local climate
Marks Gate 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 2014
- 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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