Yeoman Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Yeoman Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rubblework-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yeoman Cottage, 6, Church Lane, CO3 4AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 970 247
- Coordinates
- 51.88621, 0.86193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yeoman Cottage is a 17th to 18th century building located on Church Lane in Lexden. It is timber framed and plastered, standing two stories tall with attics, and has tiled roofs. The main chimney stack features a square shaft. The front of the ground floor is faced in brick, while the upper storey has three 2-light wooden casement windows. The ground floor is fitted with 3-light wooden casement windows.
Local climate
Yeoman 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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