Anchor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1972. Cottage.
Anchor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-bailey-pine
- 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
- Anchor Cottage, 9, the Lane, West Mersea
- OS grid reference
- TM 002 131
- Coordinates
- 51.78082, 0.90096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anchor Cottage is a building dated around 1575, featuring a long range, timber-framed structure with white weather boards. It has one storey with attics and a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles, with a modern red brick chimney located near the center. The south pitch of the roof includes a central flat dormer. The ground storey has a central modern door and a variety of window styles, including three modern casements, a pair of small-pane sashes to the left, two small eaves-level casements, and another small-pane sash. To the right, there is a glazed extension beneath a lean-to roof also covered in peg tiles. The end wall and gable are made of painted brick.
Local climate
Anchor 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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