Riverhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Chapel. 7 related planning applications.
Riverhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-stronghold-blackthorn
- 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
- Chapel
- Address
- Riverhouse, West Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9DD
- OS grid reference
- TM 037 215
- Coordinates
- 51.85523, 0.95786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverhouse is a former Congregational Chapel, built in 1846 by Thomas Sanford, Esq. It has a square plan and is constructed of brick, which is painted and rendered. The building features a two-storey front facing Quay Street, complete with a parapet and a dentilled pediment. The sides have pilastered returns and a giant order with doubled pilasters flanking the central bay.
The ground floor includes a portico supported by two round Doric columns and two pilasters, with modern doors set in a recess. Above, there are three-light windows, and the flat entablature is adorned with four Doric columns, plinths, triglyphs, and mutules. The west side elevation has two rows of clear-glazed sash windows, interspersed with four pilasters, all featuring capitals of the giant order.
Local climate
Riverhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 7 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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