Weavershed House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Workhouse. 1 related planning application.

Weavershed House

WRENN ID
carved-tallow-brook
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
Workhouse
Address
Weavershed House, Crown Street, Dedham, CO7 6AW
OS grid reference
TM 059 328
Coordinates
51.95571, 0.99579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Weavershed House, formerly known as the Old Workhouse, dates from 1725 to 1835. After its closure, it was converted into several tenements, and its original elevations are largely still visible. The building is primarily early Georgian brick, featuring mouldings and enrichments, and is arranged around a courtyard. The structure has an L-shaped plan, with a simpler building on the north-east and north-west sides, and a more elaborate building on the south-east side, which likely served as the Masters' House.

The north wing of the L-plan building has two storeys and attics, with plastered walls on the first storey and brick walls on the ground storey. It features a jettied gable facing the street with restored exposed framing and casement windows. The roof is ridged, gabled, and covered with peg tiles. A large external red brick chimney stack with tabled offsets is located at the north-east return.

The wing parallel to the street is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, also with two storeys and three bays, and has a ridged, gabled, peg-tiled roof. It includes three gabled dormers with small-paned windows and eaves. On the first storey, there are two small-paned sash windows, with a central set of casements featuring two mullions and one transom. The front door is centrally located and has an elaborate cut-brick, rubbed lintel, with a pair of small-paned sashes on either side, all under straight arches with exposed boxes.

Local climate

Weavershed 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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