Walnut Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1977. Cottage.

Walnut Tree Cottages

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thurrock
Constituency
South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottages, 1 and 2, Fobbing Road
OS grid reference
TQ 714 838
Coordinates
51.52775, 0.47053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottages, a pair of 18th century cottages, are timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a red plain tile roof. The cottages are two storeys high and feature two windows. The windows are 19th century casements. There is a red brick chimney stack, and inside, the cottages have stop-chamfered beams and a side purlin roof.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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