Woodlands is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Residential.
Woodlands
- WRENN ID
- quartered-arch-rain
- 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
- Residential
- Address
- Woodlands, the Causeway, Great Horkesley
- OS grid reference
- TL 978 305
- Coordinates
- 51.93796, 0.87652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodlands is a 14th-century house located in Great Horkesley. It was originally designed as an aisled hall in an H-plan, featuring jettied crosswings and an exposed timber frame. The west front has cusped vergeboards, and there is a hollow moulded tie beam at the south-west gable. The existing windows are modern casements, with one over one in each crosswing. The north wing, dating from the 14th century, has splayed scarfs and a chamfered crown-post supported by straight braces. This wing consists of three bays and shows evidence of an original floor at attic level. It includes a binding-joist with three-quarter circle hollow mouldings and a tripartite window on the west side with ovolo mullions. The south wing, built around 1400, features one gabled dormer on the west slope of the hall, which was laterally divided around 1500. The gabled end wings have roofs covered with peg tiles. A red brick chimney stack is centrally located on the hall roof, with two additional stacks flanking the north and south of each wing.
Local climate
Woodlands 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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