Whipps Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1975. House.
Whipps Cottages
- WRENN ID
- keen-basalt-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whipps Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Rye Hill, Epping Upland
- OS grid reference
- TL 456 062
- Coordinates
- 51.7363, 0.10847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whipps Cottages is a house that was originally three cottages, built in the 18th century. The structure is timber framed, with sections that are plastered and weatherboarded, topped by a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. The building has two storeys and features a four-window range with 20th-century casements. There are red brick chimney stacks present as well.
Local climate
Whipps Cottages 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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