The Trossachs is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Trossachs
- WRENN ID
- stark-jade-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Trossachs, High Street, Thorpe-Le-Soken, CO16 0DY
- OS grid reference
- TM 180 222
- Coordinates
- 51.85625, 1.1644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Trossachs is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, now plastered, and has a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays facing north, with a stack behind the central bay, forming a lobby entrance. There are single-storey extensions to the rear and rear left, with flat roofs.
The house is two storeys high, with attics. The ground floor has two splayed bays featuring 20th-century sash windows. The first floor has three 20th-century sash windows, and the attic has three 20th-century sash windows within gabled dormers. A 20th-century gabled porch shelters the central entrance door.
Inside, original features include jowled posts, close studding, chamfered axial beams with step stops, and plain joists. There are diamond mortices, suggesting earlier unglazed windows, on the right side of the building, along with visible wattle grooves. A large wood-burning hearth has been altered and is located to the right of the stack and a similar hearth to the left has been reduced for a 20th-century grate. A winder stair, likely original, is positioned in front of the stack. The house was known as Moones in 1828.
Local climate
The Trossachs 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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