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
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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

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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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  • 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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