Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-steel-sage
- 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
- Thatched Cottage, Hunters Chase, Ardleigh, CO7 7LW
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 309
- Coordinates
- 51.93893, 0.98728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a thatched cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century, or possibly earlier, with later alterations and additions. The structure is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with plaster to the gable. It has a half-hipped thatched roof with a hip to the road-facing elevation and a left-hand chimney stack. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and features two eyebrow dormers. The front of the cottage has three casement windows with varied leading, shutters, and pentice boards, alongside three narrow, tall windows with pentice boards. A 20th-century door is located on the right side, and a 20th-century extension is attached. The road-facing gable has a casement window and ground-floor window. A further extension to the left also features a slanting thatched roof. Historical records indicate that John Foquear, a husbandman, resided at the cottage in 1796.
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- 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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