Half A Loaf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 6 related planning applications.
Half A Loaf Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-quoin-jay
- 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
- Half A Loaf Cottage, Rectory Road, Aldham, CO6 3RR
- OS grid reference
- TL 908 252
- Coordinates
- 51.89323, 0.77185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Half-a-Loaf Cottage is a small 16th-century house located on Rectory Road in Aldham. It is a timber-framed building of one storey with attics, measuring four bays in length. The frame is constructed of oak, with flat joists and studs. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with machine-made tiles, and includes a single flat-topped dormer on the north slope. The windows are modern casements. Two 18th-century red brick chimney stacks are positioned along the ridge. The storey-posts feature jowls, and the floor joists have diminished haunches.
Local climate
Half A Loaf 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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