Lower Thatched Cottage 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.

Lower Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
old-buttress-hazel
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
Lower Thatched Cottage, South Hill, SS17 8PJ
OS grid reference
TQ 670 831
Coordinates
51.52238, 0.40616
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Thatched Cottage is an early 19th century cottage located on South Hill in Horndon-on-the-Hill. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It features a red brick chimney and early 20th century casement windows.

Local climate

Lower Thatched Cottage 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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