Tong Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Tong Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-steel-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tong Cottage, the Street, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3AZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 383
- Coordinates
- 52.01377, 0.63902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tong Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It features a timber frame and is covered with parget plaster. The roof is thatched, and there is a central red brick chimney stack. The cottage has two storeys and a four-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. On the first floor, there is a central oval window with glazing bars. The entrance has a central six-panel door beneath a round-headed porch. Inside, some timber is exposed.
Local climate
Tong 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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