Lilypond Cottage, Approximately 190 Metres North East of Matching Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. House.
Lilypond Cottage, Approximately 190 Metres North East of Matching Hall
- WRENN ID
- tenth-obsidian-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 526 120
- Coordinates
- 51.78629, 0.21195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilypond Cottage is a fishing lodge built in the mid-19th century, located approximately 190 metres northeast of Matching Hall on the western shore of an artificial lake. The cottage is constructed from gault brick, featuring both Flemish bond and English bond patterns, and is topped with a slate roof. It has a square, one-room plan and stands two storeys tall, with an internal chimney stack on the north wall and a hipped roof with a very shallow pitch. The east elevation includes one 19th-century casement window on each floor. There is a single-storey extension to the north, which has a hipped slate roof supported by four round wooden pillars and a baluster rail facing the lake. Four turned balusters are still in place, while others are missing.
Local climate
Lilypond Cottage, Approximately 190 Metres North East of Matching Hall 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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