Croft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage.
Croft Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-plinth-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Croft Cottage, Totham Hill Green, Great Totham
- OS grid reference
- TL 870 125
- Coordinates
- 51.78061, 0.71033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft Cottage is a 16th-century cottage featuring an exposed timber frame on the first floor, with a jettied gable on the right side. It has a red plain tiled roof that includes a gabled dormer on the left. The cottage has two external red brick chimney stacks, one located at the front right and the other on the left. It stands two storeys tall with attics and has a range of four windows at various heights, all of which are diamond leaded casements. The entrance includes a gabled porch that is both red tiled and weatherboarded, with a glazed door. Notable interior features include jowled storey posts, halved arched wall braces, and stop-chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Croft 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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