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Dial House
Dial House — listed building in Essex, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- North Weald · 1.7 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Dial House is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Heritage designation: Grade II listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "listed building in Essex, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.7122°, 0.1893°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Dial House is a farm cottage situated in south-west Essex, England that has been a self-sustaining anarcho-pacifist open house since 1967. The house is located in the countryside of Epping Forest in Ongar Great Park. It has been used as a base for a number of cultural, artistic, and political projects ranging from avant-garde jazz events to helping found the free festival movement. Perhaps the best-known manifestation of the public face of Dial House was the anarcho-punk band Crass. Following the DIY punk ethic, Crass combined the use of song, film, sound collage, and graphics to launch a critical polemic against a mainstream which they considered to be built on foundations of war, religion, and consumerism.
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Background
History
Dial House, a large rambling farm cottage, was built in the 16th century. Oliver Rackham describes Ongar Great Park as possibly having been the "prototype deer park", mentioned in an "Anglo-Saxon will of 1045". During the Victorian era, Dial House was the home of the writer Primrose McConnell, a tenant farmer and the author of The Agricultural Notebook (1883), which is recognised as a standard reference work for the European farming industry. By 1967 Dial House stood derelict, its acre of garden a bramble-smothered wilderness. Dial House is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
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- Coordinates
- 51.7122, 0.1893
- County
- Essex
- District
- Epping Forest
- Parish
- Stanford Rivers
- Postcode
- CM16 6GQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar
- Nearest railway station
- North Weald — 1.7 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q3503994 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Dial House, Essex (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Dialhouse1.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Dial House?
- Dial House is in Essex, London, United Kingdom (postcode CM16 6GQ), in the parish of Stanford Rivers.
- Is Dial House a listed building?
- Dial House is officially recognised as Grade II listed building listed.
- How do I get to Dial House?
- The nearest railway station is North Weald, about 1.7 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode CM16 6GQ.