Mayfield 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.
Mayfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-dormer-marsh
- 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
- Mayfield Cottage, High Road, Horndon on the Hill, SS17 8LN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 669 834
- Coordinates
- 51.52524, 0.40584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 19th-century picturesque cottage, originally named Hill Cottage but now known as Mayfield Cottage, situated on the east side of High Road in Horndon-on-the-Hill. The building is constructed of brick and timber framing with weatherboarding, and it features a thatched roof. It is a single-story structure with an attic, containing two windows. The windows are 19th-century casements. Two large dormers are prominent on the south facade. A central chimney stack is constructed of red brick.
Local climate
Mayfield 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- 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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