Horseshoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Horseshoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-rotunda-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Horseshoe Cottage, Harrow Road, Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet, SS12 9JW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 907
- Coordinates
- 51.58789, 0.53736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horseshoe Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located at the junction of Harrow Road and Pound Lane in North Benfleet. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with weatherboarding on the front. The cottage is a single storey and has a three-window range with casement windows. The roof is tiled. This building is one of the few remaining examples of vernacular style cottages in the area. There is a 20th-century addition at the rear.
Local climate
Horseshoe 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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