Number 1 and Old Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 1 and Old Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-spire-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 1 and Old Post Office Cottage, Layer Breton Hill, CO2 0PR
- OS grid reference
- TL 944 183
- Coordinates
- 51.82973, 0.82108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 1 and Old Post Office Cottage is a 17th-century house, later divided into three cottages. It is timber-framed and clad in painted weatherboarding, with a buff pantile roof. The building is one storey high with attics. A 17th-century chimney stack remains, though rebuilt towards the top. The front has three windows, which are double-hung, vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a gabled porch, and four dormers with segmental heads and double-hung, vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. A lean-to addition extends from the rear.
Local climate
Number 1 and Old Post Office Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- 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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