Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage.

Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-pediment-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maldon
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Thatched Cottage, Wash Lane, Goldhanger
OS grid reference
TL 886 088
Coordinates
51.74638, 0.73161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage, also known as Brook Cottage, is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. There is a red brick chimney stack on the left side. The cottage is single storey and has a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. The entrance includes a four-panelled door, and the structure consists of three bays. Inside, there are original 18th-century vertically boarded doors and fittings.

Local climate

Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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