The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-jamb-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Junction of Lane to Church, Great Henny
- OS grid reference
- TL 864 377
- Coordinates
- 52.00686, 0.71516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a gabled thatched roof. The building is one storey high with attics and includes two eyebrow dormers on the front roof slope. At the north end, there is a single storey extension with a gabled peg-tile roof, and at the rear, there is another gabled extension that is thatched. An off-centre rectangular red brick stack is located on the ridgeline, and the roof has side purlins.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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