Black Cottage Blackwater Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Black Cottage Blackwater Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-soffit-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Black Cottage Blackwater Cottage, Hatfield Road, Langford, CM9 6QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 823 096
- Coordinates
- 51.75583, 0.64132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Cottage and Blackwater Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the 17th or 18th century, with later alterations. They are timber framed, featuring a plastered front, weatherboarded returns, and a weatherboarded rear. The cottages have red plain tiled roofs, with a lower level extension on the left side. There are three red brick chimney stacks. The buildings are two storeys high and have a four-window range of small paned casements. There are 20th-century doors on the left and right returns, and a vertically boarded door in a moulded surround at the rear. The walls include through bracing, and the interior features chamfered bridging joists and exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
Black Cottage Blackwater Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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