Walnut Cottage Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Walnut Cottage Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-wall-rain
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
Walnut Cottage Walnut Tree Cottage, Workhouse Hill, Boxted, CO4 5TT
OS grid reference
TL 995 318
Coordinates
51.94913, 0.90211
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Cottage and Walnut Tree Cottage comprise a long, one-storey range with attics, originally constructed in the 16th or 17th centuries. The building was initially timber-framed and has since been plastered, now divided into two separate dwellings. The roof is peg-tiled, and the west end is clad in weatherboards. Two gabled dormers are located to the left of the centre, each featuring casement windows on the ground storey. A porch is present on the left-hand side. A red brick chimney is situated between the dormers, with another chimney at the rear.

Local climate

Walnut Cottage Walnut Tree 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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