St Osyth's Priory Drying House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1950. A C18 Industrial.

St Osyth's Priory Drying House

WRENN ID
open-gateway-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1950
Type
Industrial
Address
St Osyth's Priory Drying House, The Priory, Clacton-On-Sea, CO16 8NZ
OS grid reference
TM 120 156
Coordinates
51.79953, 1.074
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Osyth's Priory Drying House is a drying house, possibly from the 18th century, with some earlier brickwork on the west wall. It is constructed of red brick and features a tiled roof.

The drying house has a square shape and a pyramidal roof, which includes a chimney on the south slope. Centrally located on the south elevation is a plank and batten door. There are two louvred openings beneath the eaves on both the west and east elevations, with the openings on the east being taller than those on the west. The west elevation features a tall plinth, and the brickwork below the louvres, including the plinth, is laid in English bond. This brickwork appears to be older than the rest of the building and is not fully keyed into the south wall. The remaining brickwork is primarily laid in Flemish bond.

Local climate

St Osyth's Priory Drying House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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