The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-wattle-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, the Street, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3AZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 383
- Coordinates
- 52.01362, 0.63914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a small cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. The cottage has a red brick chimney stack with two attached diagonal shafts and a painted brick lean-to on the right side. The front has a range of three windows with various casements and a central door that is vertically boarded with two lights. Inside, there are exposed timber beams.
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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