Great Yard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C16 House.
Great Yard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-plaster-mint
- 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
- Great Yard Cottage, the Street, Great Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 891 258
- Coordinates
- 51.899, 0.7478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Yard Cottage is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century. It is timber framed and rendered, standing two storeys tall in a T-plan layout with a one bay stem. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. The existing windows are sets of three casements, and there is one dormer window on the front slope. A red brick chimney stack is located against the west wall of the crosswing.
Local climate
Great Yard Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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