The Limes Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1967. Guest house.
The Limes Guest House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chancel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1967
- Type
- Guest house
- Address
- The Limes Guest House, Brook Street, Dedham, CO7 6AD
- OS grid reference
- TM 059 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95872, 0.99628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes Guest House is an 18th-century house located on Brook Street in Dedham. It is constructed of painted brick and features two storeys with attics, topped by a gambrel roof that is tiled and includes two dormers. The front has a three-window arrangement with small-paned sash windows set in cased frames. A Doric wood porch enhances the entrance, while a dentilled brick eaves cornice adds decorative detail. There are two inset red brick chimney stacks, one on each gable.
Local climate
The Limes Guest House 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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