Riverdale 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.
Riverdale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-quoin-jackdaw
- 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
- Riverdale Cottage, Ford Street, Aldham, CO6 3PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 270
- Coordinates
- 51.90885, 0.79003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverdale Cottage is a 18th-century house located on Aldham Ford Street. It is timber framed and plastered, consisting of two storeys with a range of three windows on the first storey. The upper floor features three pairs of 6-pane hornless sashes set in exposed boxes. On the ground floor, there is a front door made up of six fielded panels, accompanied by a Victorian porch. To the left and right of the door are pairs of 6-pane hornless sashes, and there is a semi-hexagonal bay window with a flat leaded roof and a wooden eaves cornice, which contains three pairs of horned 6-pane sashes. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. The plan includes a brick rear extension on the left.
Local climate
Riverdale 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 — 9 transactions since 2001
- 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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