Leydens Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage.
Leydens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-corner-marsh
- 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
- Leydens Cottage, Magdalen Laver
- OS grid reference
- TL 517 067
- Coordinates
- 51.73902, 0.19652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leydens Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber framed and has a plastered exterior with a weatherboarded dado, topped with a thatched roof. The building consists of two bays aligned approximately east to west, with a southern aspect and an internal chimney stack at the west end. There is a lean-to extension at the east end and a 20th-century single-storey extension to the west, which is roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. The cottage is single-storey with an attic. The lean-to has a 20th-century door and features three 20th-century casement windows, two of which are leaded, along with one non-leaded casement window. There is also a leaded casement window in a tiled gabled dormer. The roof is hipped to the east, creating a catslide over the extension, and gabled to the west. Some of the framing is exposed internally, and the longitudinal joists are unchamfered.
Local climate
Leydens 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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