Tinkers is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Tinkers
- WRENN ID
- sunken-shingle-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tinkers, Stambourne, CO9 4PG
- OS grid reference
- TL 721 397
- Coordinates
- 52.02939, 0.50753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located in Stambourne, aligned north-east to south-west and facing north-west. It is timber framed and has a thatched roof. The exterior walls are plastered, and there is an external chimney stack at the south-west end. A single-storey flat-roofed extension dating to the 20th century is at the rear, and a single-storey extension to the north-east was under construction in August 1983. The cottage is single-storey with attics, featuring a trellised porch and two casement windows added in the 20th century, as well as two more windows in gabled dormers. Some of the timber framing is exposed internally. Construction details include thin primary straight bracing and studding, without jowls. The axial beams are deeply chamfered, and an original framed doorway is positioned through the central tiebeam. The original hearth is made of red brick, approximately 23cm thick, and has been altered to accommodate a coal-burning grate.
Local climate
Tinkers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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