Trellis House and Trellis Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Trellis House and Trellis Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Trellis House and Trellis Cottage, Copford
- OS grid reference
- TL 927 227
- Coordinates
- 51.86975, 0.79883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trellis House and Trellis Cottage is a 17th-century house that has undergone 19th-century alterations and extensions. The building is timber framed and plastered, with some areas featuring weatherboarding, and it has a red plain tile roof. It is two storeys high and has a three-window range of horizontal sliding sashes. The entrance features an 18th-century doorcase with a staple pediment and the original door.
To the south, there is an early 19th-century extension that is constructed of brick and plaster, topped with a grey slate hipped roof. This extension is also two storeys high and has a two-window range of double hung sashes with glazing bars. The entrance here is adorned with a moulded and dentilled flat canopy supported by pilasters.
At the north end, there is a mid-18th-century extension that is weatherboarded and features a one-window range of 18th-century double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars.
Local climate
Trellis House and Trellis 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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