Kemps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1981. House.
Kemps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-cobble-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- Thurrock MP: Jen Craft (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kemps Cottage, Dennis Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 581 835
- Coordinates
- 51.52844, 0.27851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemps Cottage is an 18th-century small house that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range. On the first floor, there are 19th-century casements, while the ground floor has double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a simple pedimented doorcase. The cottage has a rectangular plan and retains its original end brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Kemps Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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