Barn at Waterman's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1983. A C17 Barn.

Barn at Waterman's Cottage

WRENN ID
riven-chalk-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1983
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Waterman's Cottage, Watery Lane, Little Laver, CM17 0RQ
OS grid reference
TL 538 105
Coordinates
51.77287, 0.22787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Waterman's Cottage is a mid-17th century structure, built with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a thatched roof. The south wall features 20th-century stable doors. On the north side, there is a late 18th-century midstrey, and a late 18th-century lean-to extension at the north-west, which now has an asbestos roof and a 20th-century garage door. Inside, the barn has arch braced tiebeams and a side purlin roof with intermittent collars, as well as halved and bladed top plate scarfs.

Local climate

Barn at Waterman's 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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