Chase Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Chase Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-dormer-bramble
- 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
- Chase Cottage, Lower Farm Road, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TM 007 337
- Coordinates
- 51.96597, 0.9205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chase Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that is timber framed and plastered, featuring one storey and attics. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, and has two gabled dormers facing northwest. A red brick chimney stack is centrally located at the eaves. The central front door on the northwest side is Gothic in style, flanked by a pair of Y-windows. There is a one-storey extension at the north end, and the dormer Y-windows are leaded.
Local climate
Chase Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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