Black Cat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage.
Black Cat Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-soffit-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Black Cat Cottage, Roman Road, Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding
- OS grid reference
- TL 553 096
- Coordinates
- 51.76439, 0.25028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Cat Cottage is a 17th or 18th century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior. It has one storey and attics, with a thatched roof that has a hip at the northeast end and a gable at the southwest end, where it transitions to a narrower thatched extension with a gabled roof. The windows are modern casements, each with a single horizontal glazing bar. The front roof slope includes two thatched gabled dormers, and there is a small brick chimney stack located on the ridge line.
Local climate
Black Cat Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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