Shop West of Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Shop.

Shop West of Vicarage

WRENN ID
stark-panel-spring
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
Shop
Address
Shop West of Vicarage, High Street, Dedham
OS grid reference
TM 056 331
Coordinates
51.95864, 0.99191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building known as the shop west of the Vicarage is a 17th century structure with earlier elements, featuring a timber frame and plastered exterior with peg-tiled roofs. It has two storeys, with the upper storey previously jettied but now supported by brickwork. The shop displays a moulded wooden eaves cornice and has a three-window arrangement of small-paned sash windows. On the ground floor, there is an 18th century shop window that is curved at the eastern return, also with small panes.

Local climate

Shop West of Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% 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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