Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-postern-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Quay Lane, Frinton and Walton
- OS grid reference
- TM 227 223
- Coordinates
- 51.85541, 1.23284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located in Kirby-le-Soken. It features a timber frame with black painted plaster and weatherboarding on the left side. The cottage has a thatched roof with an outshot at the rear and a left external red brick chimney stack. It is a single-storey building with attics and includes a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear left. The front has a three-light casement window on the left and a central halved door with a plain surround. There are two windows on the ground floor of the right return and a single attic window. Inside, the cottage has chamfered bridging joists and beaded edging on the boarded internal walls. It is attractively situated beside a creek and is approached by a bridge.
Local climate
Thatched 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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