Fox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. House.
Fox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-fireplace-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fox Cottage, Duck Lane, North Weald Bassett
- OS grid reference
- TL 473 047
- Coordinates
- 51.72174, 0.13236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Cottage is a house that dates back to the 15th century and was extended in the 20th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of machine-made red clay tiles. The building consists of two bays that are aligned approximately east to west, featuring a late 16th-century chimney stack on the south wall of the western bay. There is a south extension from the eastern bay, which is a 20th-century addition that forms an L-shape, along with a single-storey extension that has a hipped roof, also from the 20th century.
The cottage is single-storey with attics. On the west elevation, the ground floor includes leaded French windows within a tiled gabled porch and three leaded casement windows. The first floor has two similar windows, one of which is located in a flat-roofed dormer, all dating from the 20th century. Some of the framing is exposed internally, and there are jowled posts. The south wall plate has been severed to allow access to the 20th-century extension. The longitudinal joists are lodged and have a heavy square section, joined to the building beam with central tenons. There is a trimmed stair trap in the southeast corner, and in the northeast corner, the original joists have been replaced by thinner joists from the 19th century. The hearth is faced with 20th-century brick, but original brickwork can be seen from the rear inside the 20th-century extension. The roof is fully lathed and plastered internally.
Local climate
Fox 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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