Anita Villa and Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House, cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Anita Villa and Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-flue-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Anita Villa and Laurel Cottage, Birch Street, CO2 0NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 189
- Coordinates
- 51.83573, 0.81969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anita Villa and Laurel Cottage are a 17th-century house, later divided into three cottages. The building is timber-framed and clad in weatherboard, with a grey slate roof. It has two storeys and a three-window front, featuring modern casement windows. A 17th-century red brick chimney stack, partly rebuilt in the 19th century, is a notable feature. The original layout consisted of three bays plus a chimney bay.
Local climate
Anita Villa and Laurel Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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