Latchkey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
Latchkey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-gravel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Latchkey Cottage, North Street, Tillingham, CM0 7TR
- OS grid reference
- TL 992 038
- Coordinates
- 51.69841, 0.88123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Latchkey Cottage is an early 18th-century house, originally two cottages. It is timber-framed and has a rough render finish. The roof is tiled, with a hip profile facing the road, and there are two red brick chimney stacks. The two-storey building has a four-window front with a variety of small-paned casement and vertically sliding sash windows. A central vertically boarded door was added in the 20th century. The walls feature through bracing. The roof structure includes side purlins. A red brick fireplace is present with iron soffit ties.
Local climate
Latchkey Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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