Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-mullion-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, School Road, Langham, CO4 5PB
- OS grid reference
- TM 026 319
- Coordinates
- 51.94893, 0.94692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century or earlier. It is timber framed and features black weatherboarding and gable thatched roofs. The building is a single storey with attics and has a gable thatched dormer on the east elevation. There is an off-centre red brick stack that has been rebuilt. The windows are generally horizontal sliding sashes or casements with small panes, and there is a canted bay window on the north gable elevation with a hipped peg tile roof. Some old elm weatherboarding can be found on the north end of the west elevation.
Inside, the cottage shows evidence of being a small open hall house with floored ends and a probable crown post roof. There is a large, double-sided inglenook fireplace, one side of which features a stop-chamfered mantel beam from the early 17th century. The cottage was formerly known as the Old Workhouse.
Local climate
Keepers Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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