Elm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1955. House.
Elm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- distant-newel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Basildon and Billericay MP: Mr Richard Holden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottages, 1 and 2, Southend Road, Great Burstead and South Green
- OS grid reference
- TQ 686 933
- Coordinates
- 51.61387, 0.43415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottages, also known as Nos 1 and 2, is an 18th-century house that is timber-framed and weatherboarded. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a three-window range with casement windows that have lattice leaded lights. The roof is tiled and includes three gabled dormers.
Local climate
Elm Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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