Fridays Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C16/17 Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Fridays Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-spindle-ivy
- 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
- Cottages
- Address
- Fridays Cottage, Lane Road, Wakes Colne, CO6 2BP
- OS grid reference
- TL 891 297
- Coordinates
- 51.93443, 0.74952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fridays Cottage is a 16th or 17th century timber-framed and plastered building located on Wakes Colne Lane Road. It is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan. The ground floor features a central front door flanked by two sets of modern casement windows. The rear wing is taller and consists of one bay, topped with a large red brick chimney stack. The roofs are ridged and gabled with eaves, covered in peg tiles. Notable architectural details include heavy framing that protrudes at the eaves and a "reversed assembly" at the return of the roof plan.
Local climate
Fridays Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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