Aldham Carpentry is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Aldham Carpentry
- WRENN ID
- ancient-garret-equinox
- 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
- Aldham Carpentry, Ford Street, CO6 3PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 269
- Coordinates
- 51.90815, 0.79065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aldham Carpentry is a 16th-century house that features a timber frame and rough-cast panels. It stands two storeys high and has three bays. The ground floor has a central eight-panelled door flanked by six-pane hornless sash windows on either side. The first storey also has matching sash windows. The roof is hipped at the north and includes eaves with plastered coving. There is a rear access arch on the right side, and a long range extends to the rear, which has a red brick ground storey with roll-edged weatherboards above. The roof is ridged and peg-tiled, featuring eaves and one flat-topped dormer on the south slope.
Local climate
Aldham Carpentry sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
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