Old Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Custom house.
Old Custom House
- WRENN ID
- worn-landing-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Custom house
- Address
- Old Custom House, 4 and 6, Waterside, Brightlingsea
- OS grid reference
- TM 085 162
- Coordinates
- 51.8059, 1.02429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Custom House is a 19th-century building that has been converted into a dwelling. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding and has brick facing on the right side. The roof is covered with grey slate and the building stands two stories tall. There are five windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, primarily consisting of small-paned vertically sliding sashes with horns. The entrance includes left and central vertically boarded doors, with double vertically boarded doors situated between them. A metal hood with a fleur-de-lis finial adorns the left door. The building was rented to Her Majesty's Customs around 1870 by Captain W. Fieldgate.
Local climate
Old Custom House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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