Alice's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Alice's Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-eave-gorse
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
Alice's Cottage, Brook Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9DS
OS grid reference
TM 039 215
Coordinates
51.85482, 0.96025
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alice’s Cottage is a small, one-and-a-half-storey timber-framed building, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier. The south elevation has been rendered and the east end is built of red brick. The roof is gabled with machine tiles, featuring a red brick chimney at the north-west eaves and a flat dormer in the south-central section. A plain door and a pair of small-paned sash windows are present on the ground storey. A 19th-century painted weather-boarded extension, one bay and two storeys high, extends along Brook Street, with a ringed gabled slate roof and two small-paned sashes on the first storey, alongside half-doors on the ground storey.

Local climate

Alice's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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