Grove Cottage 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.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-remnant-barley
- 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
- Grove Cottage, Whalebone Lane, Langham, CO4 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 029 321
- Coordinates
- 51.95058, 0.9524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber-framed and clad with white weatherboard, featuring a ridged and gabled roof thatched. A single-storey ridged and gabled extension projects towards the lane. Red brick chimneys, rendered, are located at each end of the building. The first storey has two sets of wooden casement windows, while the ground storey has three, with a plain door centrally placed.
Local climate
Grove Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 7 transactions since 2003
- 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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