Oak 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.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-pillar-swallow
- 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
- Oak Cottage, School Lane, Great Horkesley, CO4 5RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 305
- Coordinates
- 51.93869, 0.8747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a house dating from around 1840. It is a two-storey building on a square plan, with plastered elevations and a hipped slate roof featuring a short ridge with crested bonnets. The roof is punctuated by two gault chimney stacks located left and right. A central gabled porch provides entry via a 6-panel door. The ground floor has a pair of 8-pane hornless sash windows to either side. The first storey mirrors this arrangement, with a matching pair of sashes. Above the porch are two 3-pane over 6-pane sash windows.
Local climate
Oak Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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