Muniment House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Muniment House
- WRENN ID
- muted-plinth-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Muniment House, Brook Street, Dedham, CO7 6AD
- OS grid reference
- TM 059 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95887, 0.99621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Muniment House is an 18th-century house located on the east side of Brook Street in Dedham. It is constructed of painted brick and features a gambrel roof covered with peg tiles. The building has two storeys with attics, along with a single-storey addition to the south that also has attics, topped with a combination of pantiles and peg tiles. Some original sash windows are still present. Notably, there are four wall anchors with screw bolts positioned at the same level on the first floor.
Local climate
Muniment 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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