Ryecroft is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ryecroft
- WRENN ID
- former-latch-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ryecroft, Harwich Road, Little Bentley, CO7 8SX
- OS grid reference
- TM 111 260
- Coordinates
- 51.89276, 1.06712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ryecroft is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with later alterations and additions. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a red plain tiled roof. The chimney stacks are located on the right, centre right, and left of the building. The cottage is one storey high with attics, featuring two gabled dormers. It has three small-paned windows on the ground floor. A 20th-century door with side lights is positioned on the right, and a small rear extension on the left return may have originally been a bake oven.
Local climate
Ryecroft 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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