Bay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bay Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-outpost-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bay Cottage, 16, East Bay, CO1 2UD
- OS grid reference
- TM 006 252
- Coordinates
- 51.88955, 0.91429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bay Cottage is a small 18th century timber-framed and plastered building with tiled roofs, positioned with its gable end facing the road. There is an extension on the south side. The gable end features a large oriel upper window, while the east front includes several leaded casement windows, some of which are old.
Local climate
Bay 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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