Thatched Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silent-alcove-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottages, 4, Hobbs Cross Road, CM17 0NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 488 108
- Coordinates
- 51.77633, 0.15649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of cottages from the early 19th century that have been combined to form one building. They are timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The cottages are arranged in three bays, aligned northwest to southeast, and feature a double chimney stack between them. They are attached to another building called Batches at the northwest, with their thatched roofs connected. The cottages are single storey with attics and have a plain boarded door. There are two 19th-century cast iron casement windows and two eyebrow dormers, also with 19th-century cast iron casement windows. The roof is half-hipped at the southeast end. The cottages are listed for their group value.
Local climate
Thatched Cottages 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- 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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