Lower Park is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 6 related planning applications.
Lower Park
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-chapel-swift
- 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
- House
- Address
- Lower Park, Colchester Road, Dedham, CO7 6HG
- OS grid reference
- TM 056 328
- Coordinates
- 51.95597, 0.99162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Park is an early 19th century house with a complex design. It was built using grey gault brick in English bond, with a slate roof. The house is two storeys high with attics, and has round-headed dormers—one in the south hip of the east range and four along each pitch of the roof. The windows are small-paned hornless sashes. Ground-floor windows are set beneath straight, gauged arches. On the south side of the semi-hexagonal end of the north-south range, there are three-part sashes with mullions. An level string course is present, dentilled in brick. The east face of the north-south range features a pediment, with stone urns at the returns of the parapets, and several gault brick chimney stacks. The southern elevations have been altered.
Local climate
Lower Park 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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