The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.

The Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
guardian-pillar-dawn
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
The Thatched Cottage, Wix Road, Bradfield, CO11 2UX
OS grid reference
TM 142 301
Coordinates
51.92884, 1.11539
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It has a timber frame with a brick facade and weather boarded returns, topped with a hipped thatched roof. There are external red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides. The cottage features an outshot on the left return and has one storey with attics, including one eyebrow dormer. The front has a range of four small paned vertically sliding sash windows with moulded surrounds. The left side has a 20th-century boarded door, and there are garage doors leading to the outshot. Inside, there is a substantial frame with stop-chamfered bridging joists and flat section ceiling beams, with the top plate visible. The roof is supported by side purlins, and there is a back-to-back fireplace that is now blocked with a 20th-century fireplace. The internal doors are vertically boarded.

Local climate

The Thatched Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
  • 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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