Gages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Gages
- WRENN ID
- turning-lancet-honey
- 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
- Gages, Wakes Street, Wakes Colne, CO6 2BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 890 286
- Coordinates
- 51.92412, 0.74725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a circa 1500 house situated on an L-plan. It is timber-framed and originally plastered, with the timber frame exposed and jettied on the south and east sides. The windows are casements, and a large, modern porch has been added. The roofs are hipped and covered in red pegtiled tiles, with a prominent red brick chimney stack containing nine octagonal shafts at the centre of the hall roof. A staircase tower is located in the return of the plan.
Local climate
Gages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2015
- 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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