Gibbs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage.

Gibbs Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-gallery-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Gibbs Cottage, Ongar Road
OS grid reference
TL 556 050
Coordinates
51.7222, 0.25188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gibbs Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with a painted bricked-up front. It has a red plain tiled gambrel roof that is half-hipped to the left and extends over a central lean-to porch. The cottage is one storey with attics and has a range of four small paned casement windows. There is a three-board door and an off-centre red brick chimney stack. The cottage has good group value with the adjacent Church Lane Cottages.

Local climate

Gibbs Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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