Gulsons is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.

Gulsons

WRENN ID
patient-balcony-khaki
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
Period
Medieval
Address
Gulsons, Church Street, Boxted, CO4 5SX
OS grid reference
TL 997 336
Coordinates
51.96509, 0.90612
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gulsons is a house dating from around 1380 to 1510, constructed with a timber frame and featuring two storeys and four bays. The building has been extended at both ends and has been externally modernised in a Tudor style. It has a ridged, gabled roof that is covered with peg tiles. The walls are partly plastered and partly weatherboarded. The layout of the house is now in the shape of a T. It has casement windows in the original central range, serpentine bracing, long concave jowls, and bare faced tenons on the first floor joists.

Local climate

Gulsons sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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