Little Cooper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1980. House. 3 related planning applications.
Little Cooper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-loft-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Cooper's Cottage, Wat Tyler Park, Pitsea Hall Lane, Pitsea, SS16 4UH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 737 871
- Coordinates
- 51.55644, 0.50492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Cooper's Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with two bays on the left that were heightened in the late 17th century. The structure features weatherboard over a timber frame, a half-hipped thatch roof, and a brick ridge stack. It has a three-unit plan, likely originally open to the roof, which was remodeled in the late 17th century into a three-unit lobby-entry plan. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a three-window range. It includes a 19th-century plank door and 20th-century windows, while the dormer has a 19th-century two-light leaded casement with original fittings.
Inside, the cottage features late 17th-century ogee-stopped chamfered beams from inserted floors in the center and left. The chimneystack on the right likely replaced a former 16th-century smoke bay. The service room to the right remains unaltered from the late 17th century and is open to a common rafter roof. The first floor displays an exposed tie beam and wall plate assembly from the former 16th-century roof, which was removed and heightened in the late 17th century. The roof now has late 17th-century clasped purlins with original common rafters. The floorboards date from the 17th century, and the dormer window has mortices indicating where a former 17th-century diamond-mullioned window once existed.
Local climate
Little Cooper's Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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