White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-eave-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, Matching
- OS grid reference
- TL 512 104
- Coordinates
- 51.77261, 0.19004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 19th and 20th-century extensions. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in 20th-century red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays aligned approximately east-west, positioned at right angles to the road. There is a chimney stack located in the middle bay to the north of the ridge. Lean-to extensions are present on both sides, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. At the northeast corner, there is a single-storey flat-roofed workshop. The cottage is single-storey with attics and features a tiled gabled porch on the west elevation, along with one 20th-century casement window on the ground floor and another on the upper floor. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. No interior access was available for inspection in March 1983.
Local climate
White 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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