Garlands Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C19 Cottage.

Garlands Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
watchful-cloister-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
Garlands Farm Cottage, Craye's Green, Birch
OS grid reference
TL 952 192
Coordinates
51.83785, 0.83221
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garlands Farm Cottage is an early 19th-century building constructed of brick and plaster, topped with a grey slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and features a four-window range of double-hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars.

Local climate

Garlands Farm Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 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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