Knowles Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.
Knowles Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-threshold-thistle
- 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
- Knowles Cottage, London Road, Great Horkesley, CO6 4BU
- OS grid reference
- TL 965 309
- Coordinates
- 51.94253, 0.85772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowles Cottage is a 16th century small house located on London Road in Great Horkesley. It consists of two parallel ranges, one to the east and one to the west, and features a timber frame with plastered walls. The roofs are ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles. A red brick chimney stack is centrally placed on the front slope. The east gable has heavy top plates and side purlins. The south front showcases pairs of sliding sash windows, each with six panes arranged in a 2 over 2 configuration, set in exposed boxes. There are gabled porches on both the left and right sides, which now have six-pane casements fitted.
Local climate
Knowles 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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