Willows is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Willows
- WRENN ID
- moated-pavement-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willows, Church Road, Thorrington, CO7 8HQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 096 203
- Coordinates
- 51.84211, 1.04144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage, likely dating back to the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is timber-framed and has plastered walls. The roof is a red plain tiled gambrel shape. A central chimney stack is built of red brick. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and includes a rear wing and a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear right. There are two gabled dormers in the roof. The windows are 20th-century, with three small panes of glass, and a 20th-century door is located on the left return. Inside, features include a large central chimney stack, chamfered bridging joists, flat section ceiling joists, and heavy wall studs with some through bracing. The cottage has group value context.
Local climate
Willows sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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