Villa Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Villa Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-wicket-pigeon
- 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
- Villa Cottage, 56, High Street, East Donyland
- OS grid reference
- TM 032 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85435, 0.9502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Villa Cottage is an early 19th-century, two-storey cottage constructed of red brick, with part of it painted, and features a grey slate roof. It was originally used as a chandlers shop, boat store, and dwelling. The cottage largely retains its original form. The south-west end has a range of two windows, which are double-hung vertical sliding sashes with a central glazing bar. The north-east end has shuttered openings and first-floor access via a ladder. There are red brick chimney stacks present.
Local climate
Villa Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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