Highlands is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Highlands
- WRENN ID
- waiting-lantern-shade
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Highlands, School Lane, Great Horkesley, CO6 4BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 975 306
- Coordinates
- 51.93942, 0.87242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highlands is a 16th century cottage that is timber framed and plastered. The road-facing gable is cased in painted brick, while one bay on the west wall has exposed framing. The south bay is roofed with machined red tiles, and there are two framed bays to the north that are thatched and feature two eyebrow dormers. A red brick chimney stack is located at the junction of the roofs. The ground elevation on the west side includes a timber 'Romayne' window head, two nine-pane casements, a west door, and a twelve-pane fixed casement.
Local climate
Highlands 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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