Wishing Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Wishing Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-chalk-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wishing Well Cottage, Maldon Road, Birch
- OS grid reference
- TL 946 217
- Coordinates
- 51.86046, 0.82503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wishing Well Cottage is a 15th-century house that has been extensively altered in the mid-19th century. It features a gabled cross wing at the east end, with the cross wing being two stories tall while the remainder of the building is one story with attics. The cottage is timber framed and plastered, topped with a grey slate roof. It has a three-window range of 19th-century casements with two-centred heads, along with two dormers that also have two-centred heads. A 19th-century red brick chimney stack is present, and there is a modern porch added to the structure.
Local climate
Wishing Well 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2003
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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