Hewitt Memorial Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Memorial hall. 1 related planning application.
Hewitt Memorial Hall
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cloister-russet
- 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
- Memorial hall
- Address
- Hewitt Memorial Hall, High Street, Dedham, CO7 6HJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 055 330
- Coordinates
- 51.95768, 0.99006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hewitt Memorial Hall is a circa 1810 structure of plastered timber framing. It was originally the Old Assembly Room, depicted in J. Constable's painting of Dedham Vale. The building features a pedimented front with pilasters, and has one-storey flanking wings with open pediments and small, semi-circular windows. Other windows are small-paned sashes, and the roof is slate clad.
Local climate
Hewitt Memorial Hall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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