Blackboard 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.
Blackboard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-spindle-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blackboard Cottage, Heckford Bridge, Stanway, CO3 0SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 946 218
- Coordinates
- 51.86118, 0.82569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackboard Cottage is a small house from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and covered in black weatherboarding, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range of double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars on the first floor, while the ground floor has horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars. There are lean-to extensions at each end of the cottage, which have casement windows and red pantile roofs.
Local climate
Blackboard 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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