Spring Cottage 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.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-glass-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Cottage, the Green, Elmstead, CO7 7AG
- OS grid reference
- TM 062 245
- Coordinates
- 51.88161, 0.99563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered cottage dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, with later alterations and a rear extension. It has a thatched roof with a gabled dormer on the left end, and chimney stacks positioned off-centre to the right. The front features two 20th-century windows; the one on the left has four lights. A central, gabled 20th-century porch shelters a vertically boarded door. The internal timber frame appears complete, with halved arched braces to the walls. The cottage has stop-chamfered bridging joists to an inserted ceiling, two doorways with segmental heads—one to the rear, which is chamfered—and a restored inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Spring Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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