Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-trefoil-evening
- 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 Cottage, Swan Street, Chappel, CO6 2EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 892 276
- Coordinates
- 51.9149, 0.75098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed building with three bays and one and a half storeys. The walls are plastered, and there are two casement windows on the ground floor, along with a front door located on the south side. A chimney stack is also positioned at the south end of the cottage. The roof is ridged, gabled, and thatched, featuring one Y-traceried Gothic window in the north gable.
Local climate
Willow Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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