Gull Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Gull Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-passage-kestrel
- 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
- Gull Cottage, Coggeshall Road, Great Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 877 231
- Coordinates
- 51.87492, 0.7259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gull Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that has a first floor added in the 18th century. The building is three bays long, featuring rendered walls and a clay-tiled roof, which includes two eyebrow dormers on the north side. The ground floor windows have modern casements. There are also modern extensions to the west and south, and a single red brick chimney stack is located at the original center of the building.
Local climate
Gull Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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