Lone Pine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. A C17 House.

Lone Pine Cottage

WRENN ID
crumbling-newel-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1984
Type
House
Address
Lone Pine Cottage, Matching
OS grid reference
TL 538 109
Coordinates
51.77568, 0.22795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lone Pine Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is roughcast rendered and has a thatched roof. The building has four bays oriented approximately north-south, with the main aspect facing west. There are axial chimney stacks located at both the north end and at the south end of the third bay from the north.

At the rear of the south bay, there is a single-storey extension, while the rear of the north bay has a one-storey extension with attics. The cottage has a plain boarded door and three 20th-century casement windows, along with four gabled dormers that also contain 20th-century casement windows. Inside, some of the framing is exposed, featuring posts that are not jowled, straight tiebeams, and primary straight bracing. The axial beams in the north bay and two south bays are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, while the joists are unchamfered and have a vertical section. In the second bay from the north, the joists are arranged axially, suggesting some reconstruction has taken place. The roof has clasped purlins. Notably, the south chimney stack is original and of an unusual design, supported at the front corners by heavy posts and open at the sides.

Local climate

Lone Pine 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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