Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Cottage.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- third-stronghold-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dial House, Clacton Road, Great Bentley
- OS grid reference
- TM 112 190
- Coordinates
- 51.83041, 1.0641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features a central red brick chimney stack. It has one storey and an attic, along with a small single-storey extension to the right, which also has a red brick chimney stack, and a porch extension on the west face. There is a 20th-century bay window on the east face and a small paned vertically sliding sash window. Inside, heavy wall studs are visible.
Local climate
Dial 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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