Adelphi Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Adelphi Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stranded-cloister-meadow
- 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
- House
- Address
- Adelphi Cottages, 1 and 2, Langham Moor Road, CO4 5NR
- OS grid reference
- TM 016 315
- Coordinates
- 51.94578, 0.93283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Adelphi Cottages are a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. The house has a timber frame and is plastered, with two storeys and a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles. An eaves line and a central chimney stack are made of red brick. The first storey has a range of four small-paned sash windows, which have exposed boxes but no horn. The ground storey has five altered windows and a door on the right-hand side. There is a single-storey extension with a ridged roof facing the road and a lean-to addition at the opposite end.
Local climate
Adelphi Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- 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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