Whalebone House 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.
Whalebone House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-quartz-onyx
- 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
- Whalebone House, Whalebone Lane, Langham, CO4 5PX
- OS grid reference
- TM 028 334
- Coordinates
- 51.96236, 0.95099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whalebone House is an early 19th-century house with earlier elements, located on Whalebone Lane in Langham. The building is constructed of gault brick and features two storeys and three bays, topped with a parapetted roof that has hips and dormers covered in machine-made tiles. There are four gault brick chimney stacks. The house has full-height semi-deciagonal bow windows on the left and right, which have flat-topped casements, and a central round-headed Gothic sash window with Y tracery on the first storey. The ground storey includes a central round-headed doorway that is topped by a radial fanlight and a stucco pediment.
Local climate
Whalebone House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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