Petcheys Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Petcheys Cottages
- WRENN ID
- little-casement-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Petcheys Cottages, 1 and 2, High Laver, CM5 0JQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 533 089
- Coordinates
- 51.75862, 0.22016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Petcheys Cottages is a 17th-century lobby-entrance house that has been divided into two cottages and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and roughcast rendered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It consists of three bays oriented approximately northeast to southwest, featuring a double chimney stack in the middle bay that creates the lobby entrance. The structure was centrally divided in the early 19th century to form two separate cottages, and each end was extended by one bay. There is a lean-to extension along the entire length of the rear, which has a catslide roof from the 19th or 20th century. A glazed porch and conservatory were added at the rear in the 20th century. Some of the framing is exposed internally, and there are axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, along with primary straight bracing in the 19th-century extensions.
Local climate
Petcheys Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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