Thrums is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thrums
- WRENN ID
- eternal-timber-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thrums, Fowes Lane, Belchamp Otten, CO10 7BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 799 415
- Coordinates
- 52.04305, 0.62189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. A single-storey addition, plastered and with a red plain tiled roof, was added in the 20th century, and includes a door and casement window on its left side. The cottage has two storeys and a two-window front, featuring 20th-century casement windows with small panes, including a bow window on the ground floor left. A central gabled porch contains a vertically boarded door. The central chimney stack is red brick and features original back-to-back fireplaces with mantel beams above. An 18th-century staircase wraps around the chimney piece. Several 18th-century internal doors remain. The walls have through bracing.
Local climate
Thrums 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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