Anchor Cottage Bonita is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Anchor Cottage Bonita
- WRENN ID
- rough-postern-solstice
- 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
- House
- Address
- Anchor Cottage Bonita, 1, Anchor Hill, Wivenhoe
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 214
- Coordinates
- 51.85482, 0.95844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anchor Cottage, also known as Bonita, is a 16th century house located on Anchor Hill in Wivenhoe. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a jetty that is underbuilt in brick. It has a ridged gabled and hipped roof covered with peg tiles, and two red brick chimney stacks.
On the first storey, there are four pairs of small-paned sash windows in exposed boxes. The ground storey includes a blocked window on the left side, a 19th century shop front that is all in one case with a leaded top, and a door located in the third place. To the left, there is a fixed-paned light with three and two pairs of small-paned sashes. Adjacent to this is Anchor Cottage, which has a door and two modern sash windows.
Local climate
Anchor Cottage Bonita sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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