Bottengom's is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bottengom's
- WRENN ID
- guardian-frieze-myrtle
- 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
- Address
- Bottengom's, Horkesley Road, Wormingford, CO6 3AP
- OS grid reference
- TL 946 320
- Coordinates
- 51.95304, 0.83104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bottengom's is a house dating from around 1500 and later. It has a timber frame with plastered walls and stands two storeys high. The front features a range of five modern casement windows that are irregularly spaced, while the first floor has four modern casements. The gable ends at the north and south are made of red brick. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and there is a red brick chimney stack located near the centre of the ridge. At the back, there is a long lean-to structure. Inside, the ground storey ceiling showcases exposed oak joists.
Local climate
Bottengom's sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 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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