Cowhouse West of Messing Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cowhouse.

Cowhouse West of Messing Lodge

WRENN ID
sacred-cellar-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Cowhouse
Address
Cowhouse West of Messing Lodge, Lodge Road, Messing-Cum-Inworth
OS grid reference
TL 900 196
Coordinates
51.8428, 0.75809
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cowhouse west of Messing Lodge is an 18th-century structure built with a timber frame and brick, featuring plaster and weatherboarding. It has a roof that is hipped and gabled, covered with red plain tiles.

Local climate

Cowhouse West of Messing Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 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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