Wagon Lodge to North of Aldham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Wagon lodge. 1 related planning application.
Wagon Lodge to North of Aldham Hall
- WRENN ID
- south-portal-russet
- 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
- Wagon lodge
- Address
- Wagon Lodge to North of Aldham Hall, Brook Road, CO6 3RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 918 249
- Coordinates
- 51.89012, 0.78634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wagon Lodge to the north of Aldham Hall is a 17th-century structure aligned east to west. It is three bays long and was originally open on all sides, but is now clad with vertical weatherboards. The roof features a ridge and gabled ends clad in corrugated iron. It consists of five bays with lapped collars and flat oak rafters that are halved at their apexes. The walls include arch-braces, posts without jowls, tie-beams on hanging-knees, and are secured with forelock bolts.
Local climate
Wagon Lodge to North of Aldham Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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