Birch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Birch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-pavement-nettle
- 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
- House
- Address
- Birch Cottage, Rectory Road, RM16 3LB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 645 819
- Coordinates
- 51.51255, 0.36999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Cottage is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and features a jettied and gabled crosswing at the south end. The front has a four-window range with early 19th-century cast iron small-paned casements, two of which have small gables above the eaves. The exterior displays cambed pargetting and is complemented by red brick chimney stacks from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Local climate
Birch 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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