Dutch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Castle Point local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Dutch Cottage

WRENN ID
sleeping-sill-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Castle Point
Constituency
Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1952
Type
Cottage
Address
Dutch Cottage, Canvey Road, Canvey Island, SS8 0QD
OS grid reference
TQ 774 837
Coordinates
51.52508, 0.55663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dutch Cottage is a cottage, now used as a museum, dated 1618. It features an octagonal timber frame with plastered brick facing and a thatched circular pointed roof that ends in a circular chimney stack with moulded capping. The building is one storey with attics and has central eyebrow dormer windows. The ground floor has two-light casement windows with Gothic glazing and shutters. The central door is nailed and has five upper and lower vertical panels, topped with a simple pediment on brackets. There is a rear buttress and a later single-storey lean-to extension on the left, which has a red tiled roof and a similar door. The date 1618 is inscribed above the door. Canvey Island was reclaimed in the early to mid-17th century by the Dutch, who built the sea wall, and two cottages from this period still survive.

Local climate

Dutch Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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