Priory 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.
Priory House
- WRENN ID
- plain-railing-lichen
- 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
- Priory House, Old House Lane, Boxted, CO4 5RB
- OS grid reference
- TL 997 307
- Coordinates
- 51.93962, 0.90485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory House is an 18th-century house, with earlier elements, situated on an L-shaped plan encompassing its west and south elevations. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond, with peg-tiled roofs featuring eaves and troughing, and a ridged, hipped profile. Three brick chimneys are present, two on the rear slope and one on a projecting wing. The south elevation has three double-hung sash windows with small panes on the first storey, finished with stucco and a dentilled brick eaves cornice. A central ground-floor entrance is framed by an elaborate Victorian door surround, featuring a wide wooden case with reeding and an open pediment supported by consoles. Matching sash windows flank the entrance on the first storey, all contained within concealed boxes. The east wall of the north wing contains a pair of sliding sash windows. Decorative cast iron oval wall anchors are visible on this wall, likely dating from the early 19th century.
Local climate
Priory House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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