Creek Cottage St Botulph's is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Creek Cottage St Botulph's
- WRENN ID
- upper-moulding-birch
- 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
- Creek Cottage St Botulph's, 35, the Lane, West Mersea, CO5 8NS
- OS grid reference
- TM 003 132
- Coordinates
- 51.7822, 0.9026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Creek Cottage, located at St Botolph's, is a 19th-century building featuring two storeys made of painted red brick and a ridged, gabled slate roof. It has one red brick chimney and two small-paned sash windows, one on each floor, with segmental arches above the eaves. Adjacent to it is St Botolph's Cottage, dating from the 18th century, which has a long timber-framed and rendered range with a ridged and gabled roof covered in peg tiles. This cottage features one pebbledashed chimney stack and four flat dormers, each with pairs of modern casements. On the ground floor, there is a semi-hexagonal modern bow window on the left, a modern door, a matching bow window, followed by a pair of small pane casements, another modern door, and a set of three casements.
Local climate
Creek Cottage St Botulph's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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