Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-hall-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Plains Farm Road, Ardleigh
- OS grid reference
- TM 019 287
- Coordinates
- 51.92037, 0.93558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1600, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is thatched, and there is a plastered chimney stack on the left side. The cottage features lean-to extensions on the right and at the rear. It is one storey high with attics and has a two-window range of small paned pivot windows. The right side has a 20th-century plank and muntin door. The cottage consists of two bays and has an inserted ceiling. The side purlin roof is pegged at the ridge.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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