1 and 2 Beacon Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
1 and 2 Beacon Cottages
- WRENN ID
- old-vault-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 and 2 Beacon Cottages, Great Totham, CM8 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 127
- Coordinates
- 51.78305, 0.68402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 Beacon Cottages is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the 18th century or earlier and features a 20th-century porch and rear extensions. The structure is timber framed and has panel pargetting. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and is hipped on the right and left crosswings. There are two red brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, consisting of 18th-century small paned vertically sliding sashes with pentice boards above. The 20th-century part-glazed doors lead to the left and right single-storey extensions. Internally, the side girts, top plates, and bridging joists of the original frame are visible, along with some vertically boarded doors.
Local climate
1 and 2 Beacon Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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