White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-tallow-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, 2 and 3, School Hill, Birch, CO2 0NA
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 198
- Coordinates
- 51.8437, 0.81953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on School Hill. It features a timber frame with sections that are weatherboarded and plastered. The roof is a red plain tile gambrel style. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a range of three windows that have modern casements. There are also two modern gabled dormers and a small pedimented doorcase. The building has an L-shaped plan with later extensions at the rear and red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
White 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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