Penny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A Regency House. 1 related planning application.
Penny Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-step-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Period
- Regency
- Address
- Penny Cottage, Plummers Road, Fordham, CO6 3NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 292
- Coordinates
- 51.92851, 0.80788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penny Cottage is an early 19th-century house designed in the Regency style. It has roughcast painted elevations and stands two storeys high, topped with a ridged and gabled roof covered in slate, featuring eaves and troughing. There are two red brick chimney stacks positioned evenly along the ridge. The central front door consists of six fielded panels set in a wide wooden case, topped with a flat hood supported by scrolly consoles. The windows are small-paned hornless sashes with marginal lights surrounding them, with two on the ground storey and two on the first storey, all set in exposed boxes.
Local climate
Penny Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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