Bluebird Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1972. Cottage.
Bluebird Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-mortar-oak
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Bluebird Cottage, 5, the Lane, West Mersea
- OS grid reference
- TM 001 131
- Coordinates
- 51.78076, 0.90068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bluebird Cottage is a small weatherboarded cottage located on The Lane in West Mersea, likely dating from the 18th to 19th century. The building has one storey and attics, with a tiled roof and a central chimney stack. It is included in the register for its group value with surrounding structures.
Local climate
Bluebird 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 — 1 transaction since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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