Plummers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Plummers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-hammer-poplar
- 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
- Plummers Cottage, Plummers Road, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 292
- Coordinates
- 51.92829, 0.80729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plummers Cottage is a 15th-century cottage that features a timber frame and consists of three bays, with one storey and attics. The walls are rendered, and the roof was repaired after fire damage in 1968, although the frame remains intact underneath. The end bays are storeyed, and the central hall, which was originally open to the ridge, now has a chimney stack that was added later. The hall was divided laterally around 1660. The cottage has modern windows and tiles.
Local climate
Plummers Cottage 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 2021
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