The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1950. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-screen-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Basildon and Billericay MP: Mr Richard Holden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1950
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 1 and 2, London Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 721 873
- Coordinates
- 51.55846, 0.48235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage, also known as Nos 1 and 2, is a pair of early 19th century cottages located at the east end of Paynters Hill. They are timber-framed and weatherboarded, believed to have been constructed using old timbers salvaged from the Old Rectory when it was demolished in 1836. The cottages are two storeys high, each featuring a two-window range with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars. There are two doorways, and the roofs are hipped and tiled, with long catslides at both the east and west ends, as well as a central chimney stack.
Local climate
The 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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