Murrells Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Murrells Cottages
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chimney-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Murrells Cottages, 1 and 2, Stanford Road, RM16 3BB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 649 810
- Coordinates
- 51.50438, 0.37472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Murrells Cottages, originally known as The Cottage, are an early 18th-century timber-framed cottage. The frame is plastered and the roof is thatched. The building is one storey high with attics. It has a three-window range of 19th-century casement windows and four flat-topped dormers. An original red brick chimney stack is located at one end.
Local climate
Murrells Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- 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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