Water End Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage.

Water End Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
proud-spindle-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Water End Farm Cottage, Epping Road, Bobbingworth
OS grid reference
TL 540 042
Coordinates
51.71621, 0.22832
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Water End Farm Cottage is a cottage that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 16th century or earlier, with a crosswing and an 18th-century extension to the rear, along with a 19th-century single-storey lean-to on the left. The building features a red plain tiled roof, with the extension clad in slate. It stands two storeys tall, with a 20th-century window in the extension and a 20th-century half-glazed door flanked by sidelights. The first floor of the crosswing has a small paned casement window, and the crosswing itself has hipped angled eaves and a grey slate clad bay window on the right return. A central attached diagonal chimney stack is made of red brick. Inside, there are very heavy stop-chamfered beams that may date from the late 13th century or early 14th century, featuring ovolo mouldings and a brace. The basement of the 18th-century addition was used for cattle.

Local climate

Water End Farm 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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