The Wilderness is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
The Wilderness
- WRENN ID
- idle-landing-bracken
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Wilderness, Dedham
- OS grid reference
- TM 042 334
- Coordinates
- 51.96158, 0.97132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wilderness is a two-storey house dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a ridged, gabled roof covered with peg tiles and eaves. The house has two red brick chimney stacks, one located near the center of the ridge and another to the north. On the first storey, there are three leaded casements, all with transoms. The ground storey has a modern door, with a set of three casements on the left and a set of three and another set of two lights, both also transomed, on the right.
Local climate
The Wilderness 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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