Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. School, cottage.

Church House

WRENN ID
standing-loft-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Type
School, cottage
Address
Church House, 20, Church Lane, Loughton
OS grid reference
TQ 429 968
Coordinates
51.65261, 0.06448
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House is a mid-19th century building that served as a Sunday school and caretaker's cottage, designed in the Gothic revival style. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with stone quoins and window surrounds, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a rectangular plan oriented approximately north-south, featuring an entrance porch at the north, a blocked entrance in the west wall, and two chimney stacks on the east wall. There is also an external chimney stack on the north gable end, added in the 20th century.

The structure is single storey with attics. On the west elevation, the north porch includes a lancet window set in a shallow recess with a four-centred arch, and a central doorway with a four-centred arch and hood mould, which is blocked. A 20th-century metal casement window has been inserted. There are two windows, each with two lights and two-centred arches, featuring chamfered architraves and hood moulds. A stone string course runs at sill level. The gable of the facade displays a group of three similar lights. The building has deep eaves with a gable finial and a dentil brick course, and each original chimney stack has two diagonal shafts.

Local climate

Church House 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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