The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-turret-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, 130, Colchester Road, White Colne
- OS grid reference
- TL 875 288
- Coordinates
- 51.92627, 0.72625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It features a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, topped with a thatched roof. The building has four bays facing north, with a stack located in the second bay from the left against the rear wall. There is a flat-roofed single-storey extension added to the rear of the left bay, along with a lean-to garage beyond that is roofed with corrugated iron. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes three 20th-century casements and one additional casement in a gabled dormer. The entrance has a flush four-panel door. Inside, there are chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, posts with half-height jowls, and plain joists of vertical section, along with primary straight bracing. The floor in the left bay is modern, and this bay may be an extension of the original structure.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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