Mariners Way Picaroon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1972. A C17 House, cottage.
Mariners Way Picaroon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-gateway-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1972
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Mariners Way Picaroon Cottage, 1, the Lane, West Mersea
- OS grid reference
- TM 001 131
- Coordinates
- 51.78078, 0.9005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Picaroon Cottage, also known as No 1 Mariners Way, is a 17th-century building that has been altered in the 18th century and later. It stands two storeys high with attics and features double gabled bays. The front is faced with brick and has a band, along with a rendered central chimney stack. There are three windows on the front, which are Victorian double-hung sashes. External doors are located at each end of the front, with one door featuring a date panel above it that reads 1624.
Local climate
Mariners Way Picaroon Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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