Highfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Highfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gravel-scarlet
- 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
- Highfield Cottage, Whalebone Lane, Langham
- OS grid reference
- TM 029 334
- Coordinates
- 51.96215, 0.95287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield Cottage is a 17th or 18th century building located on Whalebone Lane in Langham. It features a long timber-framed structure with exposed framing on the right side and a plastered finish. The roof is thatched, ridged, and gabled, adorned with three eyebrow dormers. The windows are wooden casements, and there are two plain doors on the ground floor, along with a range of five small-paned wooden casements. On the north wall, there is a red brick outshut, which may have been an oven. The cottage has three square red brick chimneys along the ridge. At the rear, there is a single-storeyed wing that forms a T-plan.
Local climate
Highfield Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% 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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