Dedham Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. Post office. 1 related planning application.
Dedham Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-tallow-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Dedham Post Office, High Street, CO7 6HL
- OS grid reference
- TM 056 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95844, 0.99158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dedham Post Office is an early 19th-century building that features a front added to an earlier timber-framed structure. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a slate roof. The façade includes a two-window range of small-paned sash windows, with a central entrance door flanked by sash windows on either side. To the west, there are iron railings that curve towards the front of the building.
Local climate
Dedham Post Office 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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