Owl Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 2005. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Owl Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-basalt-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 2005
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Owl Cottage, 14 and 15, the Street, Ramsey and Parkeston, CO12 5HL
- OS grid reference
- TM 211 303
- Coordinates
- 51.92815, 1.21496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owl Cottage, along with numbers 14, 15, and 17 The Street, comprises a group of three cottages, originally four, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with an 18th-century addition. The cottages are timber-framed and have been refronted with rendered brickwork, topped by a tiled roof with brick chimney stacks, rebuilt on the exterior. Numbers 15 and Owl Cottage are one storey high with attics, and feature three bays, three gabled dormers, and 20th-century casement windows. Owl Cottage includes a cambered doorcase and a sawtooth eaves cornice. Number 14 has a projecting gable and a horned sash window. The interior of the section originally number 16 (now part of Owl Cottage) retains an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer, stop-chamfered spine beams, and an end wall with unusual serpentine bracing, similar to examples found in nearby Harwich. This row of cottages contributes significantly to the architectural character of the village, and the 17th-century cottages contain interesting serpentine bracing within the timber frame.
Local climate
Owl Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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