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

Oak Cottage

WRENN ID
second-flagstone-myrtle
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
Oak Cottage, Stanford Rivers
OS grid reference
TL 525 021
Coordinates
51.69769, 0.20609
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oak Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 16th century or earlier. It has a timber frame, with parts that are weatherboarded and parts that are plastered. The cottage features a lean-to on the right side and a red plain tile roof that is half hipped to the left. It is one storey high with an attic and has one window in the main building and one in the lean-to, both of which are small paned casements. The structure consists of two bays with halved bracing, jowled storey posts, and stop-chamfered bridging joists. There are stairs located beside the original red brick chimney stack. The entrance has a plank and muntin door that is off centre, and there is an internal door from the 18th century.

Local climate

Oak Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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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