Bures House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Bures House
- WRENN ID
- dark-rotunda-crimson
- 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
- Bures House, 20, Lexden Road, West Bergholt
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 281
- Coordinates
- 51.91723, 0.84734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bures House is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered house with later additions, located on Lexdon Road in West Bergholt. The building has a long roughcast exterior, two storeys, and a ridge and gable roof covered with peg tiles. The central front door features six fielded panels and is flanked by two Ionic columns. Above the door is a semi-hexagonal bay with five-paned casements and a flat roof. On the first storey, there are two sash windows in exposed boxes, one on each side of the door. The ground storey has modern square bays on either side of the door, with dentil cornices. The left bay has a casement window, while the right bay has a pair of sliding sash windows. There are red brick chimneys on the left gable and another near the center of the house. In front of the property, there are iron railings.
Local climate
Bures House 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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