Gunhill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Gunhill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sunken-chimney-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Gunhill Cottages, 1 and 2, Dedham, CO7 6HP
- OS grid reference
- TM 042 334
- Coordinates
- 51.96172, 0.97137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gunhill Cottages are an 18th-century range of red-brick cottages, built in a Flemish bond pattern. The cottages are single-storey with attics, and have a ridged roof with a broken ridge height and a half-hip at the north end. The roof is covered in peg tiles and features a brick moulded eaves cornice. There are two red-brick chimney stacks and three gabled dormers, each with small-paned casement windows. The ground storey has two doors, each beneath a brick segmental arch, and a range of three windows, a mixture of casement and sash types.
Local climate
Gunhill Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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