Bellhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Bellhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-basalt-mallow
- 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
- Bellhouse, the Street, Great Tey, CO6 1JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 891 258
- Coordinates
- 51.89878, 0.74817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bellhouse is a 17th century house that is timber framed and rendered, standing two storeys tall. The front features a range of three modern windows on the first storey, with additional modern windows to the left and right of the front door on the ground storey. The front door is set in a reeded wooden case that has a hood supported by curly brackets. The roof is ridged and gabled, clad in slate, and has two modern chimney stacks.
Local climate
Bellhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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