Church Clerks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage.
Church Clerks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-chimney-jackdaw
- 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
- Church Clerks Cottage, Church Hill, Lawford
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 315
- Coordinates
- 51.94315, 1.03733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Clerks Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The cottage features an off-centre right red brick chimney stack and has a rear range. It is a single-storey building with two 19th-century style three-light casements. To the right, there is a vertically boarded door with a red tiled porch. Inside, flat section ceiling beams are visible.
Local climate
Church Clerks 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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