The Thickets is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1987. Cottage.
The Thickets
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-chapel-holly
- 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
- The Thickets, Chapel Lane, Great Bromley
- OS grid reference
- TM 092 242
- Coordinates
- 51.8777, 1.03902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thickets is a cottage that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed from timber framing and has a rough rendered exterior. The roof is thatched and features one eyebrow dormer, along with a right external chimney stack. The building is one storey high with attics and has single storey lean-to extensions on both the left and right sides. There are various windows, including horizontal sliding sashes with segmental heads. The door, which is from the 20th century, is vertically boarded and includes a small light. Inside, notable features include chamfered bridging joists, flat section ceiling beams, and arched braces on the walls.
Local climate
The Thickets 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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