Bentalls Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bentalls Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ruined-barrel-hawk
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Bentalls Cottages, Green Lane, Aldham, CO6 3RF
- OS grid reference
- TL 918 258
- Coordinates
- 51.89786, 0.78651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bentalls Cottages is a timber-framed building dated 1615, featuring one storey and attics, with a hipped and ridged roof covered in machined tiles. The windows have been replaced with modern casements, and the exterior elevations are rendered. The chimney stacks have been rebuilt. Inside, the building showcases two types of framing: the heavy original structure includes an open hall, while the lateral division features lighter oak framing from around 1615. Notably, the lodged floor-joists of one original storeyed end remain in place at the west end.
Local climate
Bentalls 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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