Danbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Danbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-timber-cedar
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Danbury Cottage, the Causeway, Great Horkesley
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 306
- Coordinates
- 51.93929, 0.87541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Danbury Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located in Great Horkesley. It features two bays and is one storey high with attics. The cottage has an exposed timber frame and a steeply ridged, hipped thatched roof. There is a central red brick chimney stack and an outshut on the north side with very low eaves. To the right of the center, there is a round-headed timber doorway with a later window added. One original window has been blocked up, and the existing windows are modern casements. The first storey includes two eyebrow dormers, and there is a low thatched range extending from the north end.
Local climate
Danbury 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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