Numbers 1 and 2 Guildhall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. A C17 House.
Numbers 1 and 2 Guildhall Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silver-tin-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 1 and 2 Guildhall Cottages, the Street, Great Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 891 257
- Coordinates
- 51.89839, 0.74777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 and 2 Guildhall Cottages is a 17th century house that is timber framed and stands two storeys tall. It features a range of four windows on the first storey and is rendered. The roof is gabled and covered with peg tiles, and there are English bonded red brick chimney stacks located against the north and south walls. The windows are 8-pane hornless sashes, and there are two modern porches added to the building.
Local climate
Numbers 1 and 2 Guildhall Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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