Honeysuckle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Honeysuckle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-spandrel-twilight
- 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
- Honeysuckle Cottage, Chapel Road, Boxted, CO4 5RS
- OS grid reference
- TM 004 314
- Coordinates
- 51.94528, 0.91461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Honeysuckle Cottage is a 17th century long range building with a timber frame, rendered exterior, and a thatched, ridged gabled roof. It is one storey high with attics and is aligned north to south. The east wall features three plain doors and two eyebrow dormers with casement windows. The ground storey has an irregular arrangement of four casement windows. There is one rendered chimney near the center and another at the south end. The cottage has modern additions at the south end and at the rear.
Local climate
Honeysuckle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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