Church Gate House and Chemist's Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Shop. 1 related planning application.

Church Gate House and Chemist's Shop

WRENN ID
sunken-shingle-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
Shop
Address
Church Gate House and Chemist's Shop, High Street, Dedham, CO7 6AA
OS grid reference
TM 057 331
Coordinates
51.95854, 0.99355
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Gate House and Chemist's Shop is a building from around 1800, constructed of painted brick and featuring two storeys with a hipped slate-clad roof. The first storey has a range of three small-paned sash windows. On the ground storey, there is a 19th-century shop window and a Doric porch supported by two columns and two pilasters, topped with a key-patterned entablature.

Local climate

Church Gate House and Chemist's Shop 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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