Bridgewick Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House.
Bridgewick Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hollow-lime-mint
- 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
- House
- Address
- Bridgewick Cottages, 1 and 2, Chappel Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 894 283
- Coordinates
- 51.92109, 0.75361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridgewick Cottages, also known as Nos 1 and 2, is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed house located in Chappel on Chappel Hill. The building features plastered walls and consists of two storeys with three bays. The ground floor has a west-facing front door made up of six fielded panels set in a wide case, topped with a leaded flat hood supported by consoles. There are three sets of three casement windows on this level. The first storey also has three sets of three casements, along with two double casements in the spaces between. The roof is hipped and covered with peg tiles, featuring eaves. A red brick chimney stack is situated near the center of the U-shaped plan, with the main roof extending down to the first storey. There is a stair tower on the north-east return, which likely served as an open hall when the house was originally built.
Local climate
Bridgewick Cottages 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
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