Cottage Opposite to East of Lynden is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage.
Cottage Opposite to East of Lynden
- WRENN ID
- long-bailey-tarn
- 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
- Cottage Opposite to East of Lynden, Mill Road, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 998 315
- Coordinates
- 51.94648, 0.90662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th century or earlier cottage located on Boxted Mill Road, opposite to the east of 'Lynden'. The cottage is framed in timber and has a plastered exterior with a ridged, gabled thatched roof. There is a red brick chimney situated near the north end of the building. On the east elevation, there is one eyebrowed dormer, a modern door, and two modern leaded casement windows on each side. To the right, there is a lower extension.
Local climate
Cottage Opposite to East of Lynden 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- No related consent applications matched
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