Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-wicket-heron
- 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
- Grove Cottage, Nayland Road, Great Horkesley, CO6 4AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 976 316
- Coordinates
- 51.94786, 0.87436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with earlier origins. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring ridged and gabled roofs. A central chimney stack is present on the front roof slope. Modern casement windows are visible on the first storey, and a modern gabled porch is located to the left of the centre. The interior has plasterwork in raised panels.
Local climate
Grove Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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