Shakespeare House is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A Tudor Residential.
Shakespeare House
- WRENN ID
- steep-bastion-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- Shakespeare House, High Street, Dedham, CO7 6HA
- OS grid reference
- TM 056 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95881, 0.9919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shakespeare House is a 16th century building with later additions, featuring attics and cellars. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with peg-tiled roofs. The front of the house has four gables, all finished with roughcast and exposed timbers. The ground floor includes shop windows beneath a shallow pediment, which is decorated with trefoiled cusping within spandrels. These elements are said to have originated from Boxted Church, although they are more likely of Gothic design. Inside, there are some details from the 17th century.
Local climate
Shakespeare House 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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