Black Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Black Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-hearth-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Black Cottage, Woodham Walter, CM9 6LU
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 071
- Coordinates
- 51.73325, 0.63809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Cottage is a cottage that dates from the early 17th century or earlier, with alterations and additions made in the 18th century and later. It features a timber frame, with parts that are plastered and others that are weatherboarded. The roof is covered with red plain tiles. There are external red brick chimney stacks on the left and off-center right, with the latter having attached square shafts. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes two catslide dormers. It has a three-window range of 20th-century small paned casements and a vertically boarded door topped with a slanting canopy. Restoration work was in progress at the time of the last survey. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace and exposed timbers from the 17th and 18th centuries. The right bays of the cottage may be of earlier origin, and the plinth bricks could also be from an earlier period. The roof timbers are numbered.
Local climate
Black Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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