The Ancient House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Ancient House
- WRENN ID
- fading-loggia-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Ancient House, 60, the Street, Weeley, CO16 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TM 146 221
- Coordinates
- 51.85664, 1.11564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ancient House is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, featuring an exposed timber frame and a red plain tiled roof. The right crosswing has a hipped roof with a gablet facing the road, and there are two red brick chimney stacks on the left range. The building has one storey and attics, with two gabled dormers on the left range. The crosswing is jettied, and there is a window range with one-over-one C20 vari-light mullions. To the right of the left range, there is a gabled porch with sidelights and a vertically boarded door that is nailed and moulded. The top plate has a halved and bridled scarf joint, and the crosswing features arched braces.
Local climate
The Ancient House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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