Hellens 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.
Hellens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-latch-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hellens Cottage, Birch, CO2 0NY
- OS grid reference
- TL 929 206
- Coordinates
- 51.8509, 0.79962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hellens Cottage is a mid-17th century small house that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a six-window range of 19th century casements and two gabled dormers. A central red brick chimney stack from the 17th century is present, along with an early 20th century porch supported by brackets.
Local climate
Hellens 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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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