Colonial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1999. Bungalow. 6 related planning applications.
Colonial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-pewter-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1999
- Type
- Bungalow
- Address
- Colonial Cottage, Watery Lane, Legbourne, LN11 8LZ
- OS grid reference
- TF 359 840
- Coordinates
- 53.33624, 0.03975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colonial Cottage is a prefabricated bungalow built in 1844-1845. It features a wooden frame with corrugated iron cladding and shallow hipped roofs also made of corrugated iron, topped with ornate iron finials. The building has a rectangular plan and is single-storey, with a continuous verandah around all four sides supported by four wooden poles on each side, all featuring brackets.
The entrance front includes a central doorway with a half-glazed door, flanked by pairs of French windows. The left side has three sets of French windows, while the right side has three two-light casement windows with glazing bars. At the rear, there is a single casement window and an external brick chimney stack.
This bungalow is a rare example of prefabricated construction, likely manufactured by Boulton & Paul for the tropical Empire market.
Local climate
Colonial Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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