Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-beam-umber
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Bell Cottage, Stratford Road, Dedham, CO7 6HN
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 330
- Coordinates
- 51.95788, 0.98035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is an early 19th century building with a front elevation that reflects an older structure. It features a timber frame with plastered walls and a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles. The roof has two chimney stacks at the ends and eaves. The central front door is topped by a square, returned hoodmould. On either side of the door, there are Gothic casement windows with three pointed lights, each also featuring matching hoodmoulds. There are two similar casement windows on the first storey. The chimney stacks have moulded offsets, and the plasterwork is marked to resemble ashlar. At the rear, there is a lean-to, and to the north of the west chimney, there is a gabled structure made of red brick.
Local climate
Bell 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2005
- 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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