Weatherboarded Outbuilding to Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Outbuilding.
Weatherboarded Outbuilding to Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-pewter-peregrine
- 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
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Weatherboarded Outbuilding to Forge Cottage, Mersea Road, Abberton
- OS grid reference
- TM 006 191
- Coordinates
- 51.83521, 0.91058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The weatherboarded outbuilding to Forge Cottage dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and black weatherboarding, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building features three full height 19th century commercial type casements. It was presumably originally used as stables, a coachhouse, and a forge.
Local climate
Weatherboarded Outbuilding to Forge 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 sale records on file
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