Black Buoy Cottage and Black Buoy Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Black Buoy Cottage and Black Buoy Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-storey-kestrel
- 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
- Black Buoy Cottage and Black Buoy Hill Cottage, Wivenhoe, CO7 9BS
- OS grid reference
- TM 039 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85452, 0.9599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Buoy Cottage and Black Buoy Hill Cottage are two early 19th-century cottages, originally built as a single structure and later divided into separate dwellings. They are constructed of painted brick and plaster, with each unit being two storeys high. The western cottage has an unusual, elongated plan, featuring a curved (north) side creating a knife-edge return. The north-west unit has a brick dentilled eaves cornice and two pairs of hornless small-paned sash windows, with one pane per sash. The eastern range also features a matching eaves cornice, a slated roof, and a mix of sliding sash windows and casement windows. A simple door is located in the centre of the ground floor north wall.
Local climate
Black Buoy Cottage and Black Buoy Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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