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

Malting Green Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
House
Address
Malting Green Cottage, Layer-De-La-Haye
OS grid reference
TL 975 200
Coordinates
51.84371, 0.86587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Malting Green Cottage is a 17th century house that is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The cottage has one and a half storeys and features modern casement windows along with an aerial bay. It includes three gabled dormers and retains its original central chimney stack.

Local climate

Malting Green Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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