Dutch Cottage

Nevertheless, surveyors, architects and historians who have studied the cottage have opined that it was not built until the eighteenth century, more specifically around 1740.

[3][4] It takes its name from the association of this type of house with the seventeenth-century Dutch immigrants who constructed many of the sea walls of the south Essex coast.

Also, for the superstitious, the lack of right angles prevented evil spirits from lurking in wait around a corner.

[7] Owners Rochford District Council opened the cottage to residential tenant applicants in 2008 for £75 per week in rent, on condition that they would make the property available for pre-arranged guided tours every Wednesday afternoon.

[9] It has one storey, a bedroom in the attic which is beneath the thatched roof, and a circular brick chimney.