Lime Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1986. Pair of cottages.
Lime Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fallow-newel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1986
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- Lime Cottages, the Green, Elmstead
- OS grid reference
- TM 059 245
- Coordinates
- 51.88144, 0.9916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a thatched roof. There is no chimney visible from the road. The cottages are one storey high with attics and feature two eyebrow dormers. Each cottage has four ground floor windows, with the ones on the left including central transoms. There is a centrally located vertically boarded door for each cottage. To the left, there is a single-storey extension from the 20th century. Inside, notable features include through bracing in the walls, some original doors with ironmongery, and one front door that has pightle hinges.
Local climate
Lime Cottages 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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