The Sprawls is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.

The Sprawls

WRENN ID
little-stone-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
The Sprawls, Colchester Road, West Bergholt
OS grid reference
TL 954 293
Coordinates
51.92801, 0.84139
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Sprawls is a 17th century house located on Colchester Road in West Bergholt. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with a red brick façade in Flemish bond on the south front. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and has a central red brick chimney at the ridge. The first storey includes two sash windows in exposed boxes, and there is a central gabled porch on the ground storey flanked by small pane sashes on either side. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition.

Local climate

The Sprawls 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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