Randalls Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. House.
Randalls Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-spindle-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Randalls Cottages, 1 and 2, Murthering Lane, Stapleford Abbotts
- OS grid reference
- TQ 520 952
- Coordinates
- 51.63593, 0.19617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Randalls Cottages, originally marked as Randalls Farm, is a house that has been converted into two cottages. It dates from the 17th century but was refaced in the 18th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a tile roof. It features a three-window range and an off-centre stack, which reflects the layout of a three-celled early 17th-century timber-framed house. The windows include sashes and casements, with segment-headed windows on the ground floor and straight, plain reveals on the upper floor. The front door of the eastern cottage is located in its original lobby-entrance position, while the western door and stack were added to create a separate cottage.
Inside the western cottage (No. 1), there are deep sectioned joists with diminished haunched soffit tenons connecting to an axial joist. The roof features a butt side purlin type that extends around the corner via a principal diagonal tie-beam joist into the northern wing. The 18th-century re-roofing displays excellent craftsmanship. A straight joint in the brickwork indicates that the timber frame at the front and sides was replaced with brick before the back was altered.
Local climate
Randalls Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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