Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. A C17 House.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-entrance-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Curtis Mill Green, Navestock
- OS grid reference
- TQ 517 963
- Coordinates
- 51.64562, 0.19132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century and has 20th-century additions. It features a timber frame, is weatherboarded, and has pantiled roofs with a central stack. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and includes a 20th-century porch. The ground floor has small paned, canted bay and casement windows, while the first floor features a dormer window. The structure consists of two cells framed with internal straight tension braces that connect the corner posts and central truss to the middle rails.
Inside, the living room contains the original fireplace, which is the only one in the house. The fireplace lintel and the axial ceiling joist have lamb's tongue chamfer stops. At the rear, there are remains of a bread oven that projects into the garden, along with gable end windows. There are also 20th-century brick and weatherboarding additions at the rear and both ends of the cottage.
Local climate
Willow Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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