Barfields Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Almshouses.
Barfields Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- little-spire-starling
- 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
- Almshouses
- Address
- Barfields Almshouses, Crown Street, Dedham
- OS grid reference
- TM 059 328
- Coordinates
- 51.95553, 0.99622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barfields Almshouses, built in 1834, is a long range structure made of red brick with a slated ridged and gabled roof, featuring crosswings at each end. The building has three red brick chimney stacks along the ridge. The front elevation includes two doors, each with gabled porches, and there are two additional doors in the returns of the wings. A total of six pairs of round-headed windows are set under red brick arches along the front, featuring paned sashes and arched fanlights. The central four pairs of windows have dormer-gables adorned with fretted vergeboards and finials, as well as crested blue ridge bonnets that also appear along the ridge of the wings. The windows in the gables of the wings are topped with fretted roundels above and between their two lights, made from either terracotta or painted iron.
Local climate
Barfields Almshouses 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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