Westwood Park (Old Peoples Home) is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C17 Mansion. 11 related planning applications.

Westwood Park (Old Peoples Home)

WRENN ID
secret-oriel-jay
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
Mansion
Address
Westwood Park (Old Peoples Home), London Road, Little Horkesley, CO6 4BS
OS grid reference
TL 961 299
Coordinates
51.93382, 0.8525
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Westwood Park, also known as the Old Peoples' Home, is a 17th-century mansion constructed of red brick, which is dated to 1692 on one of its rain heads. The west front features two storeys and attics, adorned with three shaped Dutch gables and three shaped dormers. The building has ridged peg-tiled roofs and two groups of four octagonal chimney shafts with moulded caps and bases. The windows are made of stone with mullions and transoms. The south front is highlighted by a two-storey porch that has a Dutch gable, positioned in front of a larger shaped gable. It features centrally located stone doorways with hood-moulds, stone mullion and transom windows, as well as stone hood-moulds, a parapet, and a stringcourse of stone at the first floor level. An armorial achievement is located above the door on the first storey.

Local climate

Westwood Park (Old Peoples Home) 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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