Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-column-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Kelvedon Road, Messing-Cum-Inworth, CO5 9SP
- OS grid reference
- TL 880 180
- Coordinates
- 51.82973, 0.72708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage located on Kelvedon Road in Messing-cum-Inworth. The building is a small house that has undergone substantial alterations in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with plastered walls and has a thatched roof. The cottage is single-storied with attics. The front features a three-window arrangement of modern casement windows, along with three gabled dormers. A 17th-century chimney stack has been rebuilt at its top in the 19th century. A modern thatched porch has also been added.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 2020
- 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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