Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chamber-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, 60, Shalford Road, Rayne, CM77 6BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 728 230
- Coordinates
- 51.87902, 0.50913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is half hipped and covered with red plain tiles, and there is a red brick chimney stack on the left side. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range of 20th-century small paned casements. On the left, there is a red tiled gabled porch supported by brackets, and a 20th-century vertically boarded door with a light. Inside, there are stop-chamfered bridging and ceiling joists, as well as halved arched bracing to the walls. The original roof timbers remain intact, and the structure consists of three bays plus a chimney bay.
Local climate
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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