Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- muted-chancel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak House, Church Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 927 280
- Coordinates
- 51.91791, 0.80199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak House is a house dating from around 1660 and later, consisting of three sections, each featuring a central red brick chimney stack. The central range is the tallest, and all the roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles and featuring eaves. The exterior of the house is rendered, and the central range includes a modern front door and porch, with one light leaded casements on either side. There are three matching windows on the first floor. The south range has two small paned sash windows on the first floor and two similar windows on the ground floor. The north range has modern casements.
Local climate
Oak 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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