Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. Cottage, shop. 6 related planning applications.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-jade-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- Dial House, 17, High Street, Kelvedon, CO5 9AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 859 184
- Coordinates
- 51.83408, 0.6974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a range of three attached cottages, now serving as two shops and one cottage. It dates from the early 19th century or earlier. The building is timber framed and clad with yellow brick at the front and red brick at the sides, which is mainly painted. The roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles. The main range faces southeast, consisting of no. 17 on the left, Dial House in the middle, and no. 19 on the right. There is an internal stack of gault brick between no. 17 and Dial House, positioned in front of the axis, and another internal axial stack of gault brick at the right end.
At the left end, there is a rear wing that has one storey and an attic, with a 19th-century external stack beyond it. There are also smaller single-storey extensions behind the main range. The building has two storeys. No. 17 features a 19th-century splayed shop window, a 19th-century casement window on the first floor, and a 19th-century half-glazed door with a simple canopy supported by scrolled brackets. Dial House includes a 19th-century two-storey splayed bay with casement windows and a four-panel door with a similar canopy. No. 19 has a two-storey splayed bay of 20th-century casements and a four-panel door with a similar canopy. The shop windows contain handmade glass, and the interior features boxed axial beams.
Local climate
Dial House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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