The Walnut Tree is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.

The Walnut Tree

WRENN ID
spare-rafter-finch
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
The Walnut Tree, Nayland Road, Little Horkesley
OS grid reference
TL 964 326
Coordinates
51.95767, 0.8574
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Walnut Tree is a 17th-century house located in Little Horkesley. It is framed in timber and plastered, featuring a long range with two storeys, a ridge and gable roof, eaves, and machined red tiles. The house has two red brick chimneys: one at the centre of the ridge and a stepped external stack at the west end.

On the ground storey, there is a range of four 6-paned sash windows, with the ones at the west end being hornless. Additionally, there is a central 4-pane casement window. The front door is centrally located and has six fielded panels, dating from the late 19th century. The first storey also has matching hornless sashes at the west end, all set in exposed boxes. There are small one-storey lean-tos at each end of the building.

Local climate

The Walnut Tree 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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