Ford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Ford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-paling-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford Cottage, Ford Lane, Alresford, CO7 8BB
- OS grid reference
- TM 064 196
- Coordinates
- 51.83734, 0.9956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Cottage is a house dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, incorporating reused medieval timber. It is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, with a red clay tiled roof and a central red brick chimney stack. The house is two storeys and has attics, with a single-storey entrance range at the rear left. The front facade features a two-window range of 19th-century two-light casement windows, and two gabled dormers. The interior includes a back-to-back inglenook fireplace and an inglenook to a rear wall. Notable structural features retained include through bracing to the walls, a halved and bladed top plate scarf, and a roof pegged at the ridge. The building was formerly known as The Forge Alresford Creek.
Local climate
Ford 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 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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