Hill Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House. 12 related planning applications.

Hill Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-flagstone-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1984
Type
House
Address
Hill Farm Cottage, Millers Green Road, Willingale, CM5 0PZ
OS grid reference
TL 586 075
Coordinates
51.74458, 0.29597
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farm Cottage is a house dating from the late 14th to early 15th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring both two storeys and one storey with attics. Originally a hall house, it includes a crosswing at the south end. The front displays a half hipped peg tile roof and a gabled single storey block at the north end. There is an off-centre stack rising through the front roof slope and a small stack against the south gable. The cottage has two gabled peg tiled dormers and an unarticulated triangle gable at the north end. The windows are 20th century small pane casements. At the rear, there is a continuous peg tile lean-to with a horizontal roof light and a large lean-to dormer also covered in peg tiles.

Inside, there are substantial remains of the timber frame from the early 15th century house, along with the contemporary crosswing, which has had its front gable removed. The crownpost is of the cross-quadrant type and has been reused as a stair newel post. There is a 17th-century stack and inglenook. An old front door, now located in an outbuilding, features a semi-circular hood with a scalloped shell pattern. This door, made of solid oak boards and probably dating from the late 16th century, has moulded battens.

Local climate

Hill Farm 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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