Windmill Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Hotel. 8 related planning applications.
Windmill Hotel
- WRENN ID
- old-gallery-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Windmill Hotel, London Road, Copford, CO6 1LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 927 238
- Coordinates
- 51.87998, 0.79944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill Hotel is an early 19th-century building located on London Road in Copford. It is constructed of grey gault brick and features a grey slate hipped roof. The hotel stands three storeys tall and includes cellars. The façade has a three-window range, with vertical sliding double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars. The ground floor windows are recessed and topped with semi-circular arches. The front is adorned with pilasters, and there is an Ionic porch supported by four detached columns, which are moulded and dentilled, and has a flat canopy. There is a modern extension to the east of the building.
Local climate
Windmill Hotel 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 — 15 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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