The 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.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-ledge-yarrow
- 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
- The Cottage, Lower Road, Peldon, CO5 7PR
- OS grid reference
- TL 991 164
- Coordinates
- 51.81136, 0.88729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a mid-18th century cottage constructed of painted brick, featuring a red plain tile gambrel roof that is half hipped at the ends. The building is one storey high with attics and has a four-window range of 19th century casements set within segmental arches. There are two catslide dormers, each with casements. The cottage has end chimney stacks made of red brick. An early 19th century extension is located at the east end, which has a red pantile roof and one window range with a casement in a later extension at the rear.
Local climate
The 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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- 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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