Idols Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Idols Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-gutter-honey
- 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
- Idols Cottage, West Bergholt Lane, Fordham, CO6 3NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 285
- Coordinates
- 51.92189, 0.81153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Idols Cottage is a house dating from around 1600. It is two storeys and has an L-shaped plan, framed in timber with rendered walls and a ridged and gabled peg-tiled roof. The north to south range consists of three bays, featuring a red brick chimney stack at each gable end. There are three gabled dormers facing west, each with small pane casements. A modern porch is located on the ground storey, along with one small pane casement window on the left and right sides. There are extensions to the north, including one gabled dormer on the north side of the northeast wing.
Local climate
Idols 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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