Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.

Tudor Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-gateway-willow
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
House
Address
Tudor Cottage, Nayland Road, Little Horkesley
OS grid reference
TL 964 327
Coordinates
51.95813, 0.85753
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tudor Cottage is a 16th-century house located in Little Horkesley. It features a timber-frame construction with plastered walls and is one storey high with attics. The roof is gabled and has a ridge, covered with peg tiles, and there is a central red brick chimney from the 18th century. The cottage has two gabled dormers, each containing two-pane leaded casements, and eaves. The front door is centrally located and modern, with a set of three casements on both the left and right sides.

Local climate

Tudor 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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