Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1975. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-wattle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, 10 and 12, Lexden Road, West Bergholt, CO6 3BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 281
- Coordinates
- 51.9178, 0.84706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a 17th-century T-plan house located on Lexden Road in West Bergholt. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a pegtiled roof to both the ridge and gable ends. A central chimney is built of red brick and has an L-shape. The wing facade features an 18th-century stucco doorcase on the left, paired casements to the right of it, and a set of three casements on the first floor. The main range has a pegtiled roof. It features a central porch with a round-headed doorway and two casements with two mullions and one transom on the ground floor, with two casements above on the first floor. Eaves and troughing are present. A single-story, pegtiled, ridged and gabled extension is attached to the right.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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