Old Garrison House is a Grade I listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Garrison House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-courtyard-willow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Garrison House, East Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9BN
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85476, 0.95912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Garrison House is a house dating to circa 1600. It is timber-framed and pargetted. The roof is covered with peg tiles and has a ridge, gable, and dormers. Two red brick chimney stacks are visible, one at the east end and one near the west end. The pargetting, which is decorative plasterwork, is confined to the first floor of the street frontage and features a squared strapwork grid with voluted floral patterns in relief. The ground storey is weatherboarded in black, with a modern door and four pairs of modern casement windows. Facing the rear, the elevation juts out at multiple levels; the upper storey has exposed posts with elaborately jowled and pendanted tops, and the eaves also jut out.
Local climate
Old Garrison House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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