Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.
Thatches
- WRENN ID
- stony-cellar-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatches, Long Green Lane, the Salings
- OS grid reference
- TL 684 267
- Coordinates
- 51.91411, 0.44737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatches is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of timber framing and plaster, topped with a thatched roof that features a gabled dormer on the right side. There is an off-centre right red brick chimney stack that is plastered, as well as an external red brick chimney stack for a small lean-to on the left, which may have served as a bake oven. The cottage has one storey and attics, and displays a three-window range of diamond leaded casements. To the left, there is a gabled porch with one storey and attic, which has a vertically boarded door and side lights, along with batten decoration at the gable apex. Inside, notable features include an inglenook fireplace and stop-chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Thatches 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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