Redwing is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Redwing
- WRENN ID
- ragged-arch-hazel
- 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
- Redwing, 6, Colchester Road, West Mersea, CO5 8RU
- OS grid reference
- TM 015 138
- Coordinates
- 51.78661, 0.92048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Redwing is a 17th-century cottage located on Colchester Road, West Mersea. The cottage is timber-framed and has been clad with painted weatherboards. It is a single storey with attics, featuring a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles, with red brick terminal chimneys at both ends. Two gabled dormers with multi-paned casement windows are present. A stair window is located beneath the eaves in the centre of the roof. The front elevation contains two pairs of multi-paned casement windows and a plain door with a case between them. At the rear, there is a half-length lean-to and a central, flat-topped dormer.
Local climate
Redwing receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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