Pond Farm 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.
Pond Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-garret-thyme
- 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
- Pond Farm Cottage, Park Lane, Langham, CO4 5NJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 026 310
- Coordinates
- 51.9406, 0.94739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pond Farm Cottage is a 16th-century timber and plaster cottage located on Park Lane in Langham. It is a single-storey building with attics, featuring a thatched roof with gabled ends. Two red brick chimneys are present: one central and one on the left side. The front door has four fielded panels, sheltered by a flat hood. There are casement windows on each side of the door, and one gabled dormer window above. A single-bay, one-storey extension is built onto the right side of the cottage. The rear wall is clad with black weatherboards.
Local climate
Pond Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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