Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-hammer-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, 470, Rickstones Road, Rivenhall
- OS grid reference
- TL 828 172
- Coordinates
- 51.82374, 0.65156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered cottage located at 1841 Rickstones Road in Rivenhall. The building is one storey high with attics and features a two-window range of 20th century casement windows. Inside, the cottage has exposed timber-framing. The roof is thatched and includes one gabled dormer.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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