Hospytts 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.
Hospytts
- WRENN ID
- fallow-solder-rain
- 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
- Hospytts, the Causeway, Great Horkesley, CO6 4AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 313
- Coordinates
- 51.94539, 0.87624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hospytts is a 16th-century timber-framed building designed in a T-plan, featuring two storeys with a crosswing at the south end and an outshut located south of the wing. There is a porch at the north that extends to the west. The elevations are plastered, and the roofs are thatched, with a gabled dormer positioned centrally on the hall range to the west. A modern brick chimney is situated near the half-hip at the north end. The windows are modern leaded casements.
Local climate
Hospytts 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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