The Old Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 10 related planning applications.
The Old Customs House
- WRENN ID
- broken-tracery-saffron
- 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
- The Old Customs House, High Street, Rowhedge, East Donyland, CO5 7HG
- OS grid reference
- TM 031 217
- Coordinates
- 51.85763, 0.94805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Customs House is a mid-18th century house constructed of red brick with a red plain tile hipped roof. It has two storeys, with parapets and a moulded string course. The front elevation features a three-window arrangement of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. A good Doric porch with detached columns and a flat canopy, topped by a semi-circular fanlight, provides access to a six-panelled door set within a panelled reveal. Red brick chimney stacks are present. A red brick single-storey extension, dating to the 19th century, is located at the north end of the building. It was formerly known as Row Hedge House, at the corner of Darkhouse Lane (the former location of Rowhedge Ironworks).
Local climate
The Old Customs House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 12 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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