Ash House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Ash House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cellar-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ash House, Workhouse Hill, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 994 318
- Coordinates
- 51.94905, 0.90134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash House is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed and plastered house designed in a T-plan, featuring thatched roofs. The main section of the house runs along the street and is a single storey with attics, which include two gabled dormers fitted with modern casements. There is an intruded first floor supported by a tusked beam near the center of the building. The house has three red brick chimneys: one in the center and one at each end. The wing of the house also has two gabled dormers with modern casements and a semi-hexagonal bow window on the ground floor, which is adorned with sash windows in elaborate boxes that have finely dentilled cornices. Inside, there is a neo-classical fireplace and heavy timber framing. Additionally, there is a 19th century extension to the wing, which has a slate roof and is in line with the original structure.
Local climate
Ash House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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