2, Traps Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.
2, Traps Hill
- WRENN ID
- sunken-minaret-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Traps Hill, Loughton
- OS grid reference
- TQ 424 965
- Coordinates
- 51.64961, 0.05749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Traps Hill is an early 19th-century house constructed of stuccoed brick and topped with a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with wings extending to the southeast and northeast, and it faces southwest. There are chimney stacks on both walls of the rear angle, as well as an internal chimney stack in the northeast wing, located northwest of the ridge. The house is two storeys tall.
On the ground floor, there is a six-panel door with a rectangular light above it featuring tracery of intersected circles. The doorcase is adorned with two bands of egg-and-dart ornament. Additionally, there is one double-hung sash window with 12 lights from the early 19th century, along with two 20th-century metal casement windows.
On the first floor, there is one double-hung sash window with four lights, another with six upper lights and one lower light, both dating from the 19th century, and one 20th-century metal casement window. The roof is hipped with a shallow pitch.
Local climate
2, Traps Hill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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