178, Thorpe Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
178, Thorpe Road
- WRENN ID
- roaming-chapel-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 178, Thorpe Road, Frinton and Walton, CO13 0NH
- OS grid reference
- TM 206 211
- Coordinates
- 51.84538, 1.20266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 178 on Thorpe Road is a cottage dating from the 16th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is clad in corrugated asbestos, which may be covering the original thatch. The building is one storey high with attics and features a central attached diagonal shaft chimney stack. There are two 20th-century casement windows and a central 20th-century gabled porch. The cottage has two bays with a central chimney stack. Inside, notable features include halved arched braces on the walls, chamfered bridging joists supporting an inserted ceiling, and original stairs located by the chimney. The roof structure includes side purlins, and there is a rear wing.
Local climate
178, Thorpe Road receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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