Willow Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.

Willow Cottages

WRENN ID
salt-shingle-willow
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
Willow Cottages, 2, 3 and 4, Mersea Road, Langenhoe
OS grid reference
TM 006 186
Coordinates
51.83024, 0.91095
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Cottages, located on Mersea Road in Langenhoe, is a 17th-century building that features a timber-framed and plastered structure. It stands two storeys high and has a red plain tile roof. The front of the building includes a three-window range with horizontal sliding sashes that have glazing bars. A 17th-century chimney stack is present, although it has been rebuilt at the top. There is also an outshut at the rear of the property.

Local climate

Willow Cottages 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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