Cheshunts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Cheshunts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-moulding-hemlock
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Cheshunts Cottage, Church Street, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TM 003 335
- Coordinates
- 51.96421, 0.91493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cheshunts Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof with ridge and gable design. The cottage has a central red brick chimney stack and is one storey high with attics, along with a lean-to at the rear that has a continuous pitch. The front of the cottage has a central door flanked by two leaded casement windows, and there are Gothic Y-traceried windows at both ends on the first storey. Inside, the cottage includes details from the Elizabethan period and a 17th-century wooden fire surround, mantel shelf, and cupboard unit.
Local climate
Cheshunts Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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