Christmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Christmas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-wattle-wind
- 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
- Christmas Cottage, Blyths Lane, Wivenhoe, CO7 9BG
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 215
- Coordinates
- 51.85528, 0.95864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christmas Cottage, formerly known as No 1 Blyths Lane, is a 18th-century timber-framed building located on Blyths Lane in Wivenhoe. It stands two storeys high and features black weatherboards with a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles. The cottage has a central, truncated red brick chimney stack. On the first storey, there are two small-parted sash windows, and on the ground floor, there are two plain doors, each accompanied by matching sash windows to their right.
Local climate
Christmas Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 1995
- 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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