Swan Cottage Walden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C15 House.
Swan Cottage Walden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-gargoyle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swan Cottage Walden Cottage, 368, London Road, Stanway
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 242
- Coordinates
- 51.88281, 0.80979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Cottage and Walden Cottage are two adjoining houses located on the north side of London Road in Stanway. They date from the late 15th century or early 16th century and are constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tile roof. The buildings feature gables, with a crosswing at the west end rising to two storeys, while the remainder is one storey with attics. The cottages have a 1:2 window range, with 19th-century casements, and include two gabled dormers. There is a modern porch and a bay window, as well as grey gault chimney stacks.
Local climate
Swan Cottage Walden Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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