The Old Bakehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1973. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Bakehouse
- WRENN ID
- late-facade-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Bakehouse, 1, 3 and 5, High Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9BJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 215
- Coordinates
- 51.85496, 0.95874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bakehouse is a 16th-century house situated on a T-plan, with a projecting range along West Street. The property has ridged and gabled roofs covered in pegtiled tiles, featuring two red brick chimneys, one framed and plastered in West Street, and another with moulded leatherboards on the west bay. The east side features painted brickwork, while the front facing High Street is rendered and was formerly jettied. A small pair of casement windows with multiple panes is located in the cast gable, and the other windows are modern. There is also a single-bay range extending to the south.
Local climate
The Old Bakehouse 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 2007
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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