Birch Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Birch Cottages
- WRENN ID
- cold-flagstone-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Birch Cottages, 1 and 2, Peldon Road, Great and Little Wigborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 979 157
- Coordinates
- 51.8054, 0.86995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Cottages, a pair of late 18th century cottages, are located on Great and Little Peldon Road in Wigborough. They are constructed from red brick and feature a grey slate roof. The cottages are two storeys high and have two window ranges with double hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars and segmental arches. At the rear, there is a lean-to structure, and a central chimney stack serves the buildings.
Local climate
Birch Cottages 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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