The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-brick-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Stanford Rivers Road, Ongar, CM5 9BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 551 021
- Coordinates
- 51.69626, 0.2433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an 18th and 19th century timber-framed and plastered lodge. It has a thatched roof with projecting eaves supported by timber and featuring three cut-away arches. The building is single-storied, with two pointed-head windows containing diamond lead glazing. A central plank and muntin door is fitted with a matching pointed light above. The walls are decorated with battening. A red brick chimney stack is present.
Local climate
The 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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