Valley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
Valley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-corridor-rye
- 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
- Valley Cottage, Bridges Cottage, Fordham, CO6 3LT
- OS grid reference
- TL 921 291
- Coordinates
- 51.92778, 0.79309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valley Cottage is a house dating from approximately 1840 to 1850. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, laid on a rectangular plan. The house is two storeys high and has a hipped roof covered in slate, with eaves featuring troughing, and a central chimney stack constructed of red brick. The first storey has two hornless sash windows with small panes, interspersed with three decorative terracotta panels. The ground storey has two matching windows with segmental brick arches, and a centrally placed modern front door.
Local climate
Valley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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