Spring Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage.
Spring Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-bracket-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Farm Cottage, Colchester Road, Wix
- OS grid reference
- TM 147 278
- Coordinates
- 51.90743, 1.12124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Farm Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a rough rendered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage features a central chimney stack and is one storey high with attics. There are two small paned windows and a vertically boarded door on the right. The large chimney stack has been blocked and now includes 20th-century fire surrounds. Inside, there are stop-chamfered bridging joists, exposed ceiling beams, and a top plate with a halved and bladed scarf joint.
Local climate
Spring Farm Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
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