West House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1981. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
West House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-pillar-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- West House Cottage, Pigs Foot Green, Fingringhoe, CO5 7BH
- OS grid reference
- TM 025 201
- Coordinates
- 51.84303, 0.93961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House Cottage is a 17th century building featuring a brick and render extension at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has a two-window range with horizontal sliding sashes. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles.
Local climate
West House 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction 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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