Aldham Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A Medieval Medieval house.
Aldham Hall
- WRENN ID
- noble-gargoyle-lark
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Medieval house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Aldham Hall, Brook Road, CO6 3RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 918 248
- Coordinates
- 51.88928, 0.7865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aldham Hall is a medieval house built on an elongated Z-plan, featuring Elizabethan details and 14th-century framed floors with barefaced soffit-tenons. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a peg-tiled roof that has ridges and gables. The north front consists of two ranges aligned with a break in the roof height, and each range has a central red brick chimney stack, with the south-west stack featuring two octagonal shafts. The south-west range includes two gabled dormers and a central early 17th-century porch adorned with carved vergeboards and a finial. The windows are modern casements set between old ovolo mullions. Inside, there is notable Elizabethan panelling and a fireplace with a pilastered overmantle, all made of pine. A semi-hexagonal tie-beam can be found in the west wing, resulting from a 16th-century conversion to two storeys. The remains of a moat are also present.
Local climate
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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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