Tom Swallow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Tom Swallow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-chimney-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tom Swallow Cottage, Plough Road, Great Bentley, CO7 8NA
- OS grid reference
- TM 115 205
- Coordinates
- 51.84369, 1.06922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tom Swallow Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame with a weatherboarded ground floor and a plastered first floor, topped by a thatched roof. The cottage has a central red brick chimney stack and is one storey with attics. There are two eyebrow dormers and two diamond leaded two-light casements, with pentice boards above them. A central 20th-century gabled porch and door provide access. Inside, the walls have through bracing, and the ceiling displays exposed bridging joists, with flat section rafter feet visible.
Local climate
Tom Swallow Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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