Essex Rose Cafe is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A Medieval Cafe. 1 related planning application.
Essex Rose Cafe
- WRENN ID
- white-facade-coral
- 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
- Cafe
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Essex Rose Cafe, High Street, Dedham, CO7 6DE
- OS grid reference
- TM 057 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95909, 0.99326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Essex Rose Cafe, formerly known as Corner Cottage Cafe, is a building dating from the 15th or 16th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with wings extending to the north and west, standing two storeys high with attics and roofs that are ridged, gabled, and covered with peg tiles. The front of the north wing is obscured by a shopfront that dates from around 1900. The ground storey has been remodeled for the cafe, while the upper storey jetties out along Mill Lane and showcases 18th-century window designs.
Inside, the first floor boasts a 17th-century plaster ceiling divided into two bays, adorned with embossed borders of acorns and a trail of oak leaves, along with units inspired by Tudor roses and moulded ceiling joists. The cooperative section has a south-facing front with a shop on the ground storey, topped by a parapetted red brick wall and a ridged, gabled peg-tiled roof. It features a range of four small-paned sash windows in exposed boxes beneath straight arches. Inside this section, there is a timber frame with roll-moulded first floor joists.
Local climate
Essex Rose Cafe 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
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