Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-steeple-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Well Cottage, the Street, Messing-Cum-Inworth, CO5 9SP
- OS grid reference
- TL 880 180
- Coordinates
- 51.82903, 0.72746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is an 18th century cottage located in Messing-cum-Inworth. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof that is half hipped at one end. The cottage features two windows with 18th century double hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars. There are also two dormers with 18th century horizontal sliding sashes. A red brick chimney stack from the 18th century is present, along with a modern porch.
Local climate
Well 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 lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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