Thatched 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.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-loft-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Main Road, Frating, CO7 7DJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 090 232
- Coordinates
- 51.86859, 1.03495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century, with a 20th-century rear extension and restorations. It has a timber frame and is plastered, with some areas of weatherboarding. The roof is thatched, and there is a central red brick chimney stack. The cottage is one storey with attics and features a range of three 20th-century small paned casement windows. There is a 20th-century gabled porch with a vertically boarded door. Inside, there are through bracing to the walls, stop-chamfered bridging joists, chamfered storey posts, and a halved and bladed top plate scarf.
Local climate
Thatched 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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