Little Garth Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. Cottages.
Little Garth Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rough-niche-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Little Garth Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Prince Lane, Dedham
- OS grid reference
- TM 055 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95889, 0.99074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Garth Cottages, a 16th-century house, is a timber-framed and plastered building with two storeys and a ridged, gabled roof covered in peg tiles. It features one red brick chimney near the center of the building and another at the right end. On the left side of the ground floor, there is an archway with three panelled doors and two small-paned sash windows. The first floor has a range of five small-paned sashes and a casement window in the third position. The roof displays a heavy collar-purlin on the northern gable. Inside, the building has moulded ceiling joists. Additionally, there is a wing that extends west from the north end.
Local climate
Little Garth Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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