Potash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Potash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-flue-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Potash Cottage, Hall Road, SS5 4JW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 849 911
- Coordinates
- 51.58923, 0.66863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potash Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features a central tall red brick chimney stack and is one storey high with attics. There is an attic window located in the return gables. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century two-light windows with transoms and pentice boards above. The central entrance consists of a vertically boarded door with a simple surround. Inside, there are back-to-back fireplaces, one of which has an original bake oven on the left. The cottage also has vertically boarded doors, some of which retain original ironmongery, and original floorboards are present in the bedrooms. A later brick extension has been added to the rear. It is believed that Potash Cottage served as the Gamekeeper's Cottage for Rochford Hall.
Local climate
Potash Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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