The 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.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cupola-peregrine
- 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
- The Cottage, the Street, Chappel, CO6 2DD
- OS grid reference
- TL 894 284
- Coordinates
- 51.92204, 0.75419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 18th century building that likely has earlier timber framing and rendering. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with a lean-to on the south side made of painted brick. The north front features a central lean-to porch flanked by two pairs of hornless six-pane sash windows in exposed boxes. On the first storey, there are two matching sash windows with a round-headed window between them. The east end has two sash windows, with the lower one featuring marginal glazing bars. The roof is hipped, covered with peg tiles, and has coved eaves.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1998
- 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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