Cape Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Cape Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-wicket-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1975
Type
Cottage
Address
Cape Cottage, Gay Bowers Lane, Danbury, CM3 4JG
OS grid reference
TL 791 043
Coordinates
51.70953, 0.59089
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cape Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottage. It has one storey and attics, featuring a two-window range with 20th-century casement windows. A 20th-century gabled porch projects from the front. The roof is tiled and includes two gabled dormer windows.

Local climate

Cape Cottage 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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