Blackboarded Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1975. Cottage.
Blackboarded Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dark-rood-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackboarded Cottages, 3 and 4, Ongar Road, Lambourne
- OS grid reference
- TQ 470 971
- Coordinates
- 51.65375, 0.12412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackboarded Cottages is a pair of attached cottages dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. They are timber framed, weatherboarded, and plastered, with roofs made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottages are aligned northeast to southwest and feature a central chimney stack, with lean-to extensions on the northwest side.
The cottages are two storeys high with attics. On the southeast elevation, cottage number 3 has a weatherboarded ground floor and roughcast above, with a glazed door and one 20th-century casement window on each storey. Cottage number 4 has a weatherboarded ground floor and plastered upper section, with one 19th or 20th-century casement window on each floor. Both cottages have gambrel roofs and weatherboarded side elevations, with an attic window. Cottage number 4 also features a 20th-century porch. There is some exposed framing in cottage number 4, along with exposed joists above the ground floor, a face-halved and bladed scarf in the wallplate, and repaired brickwork in the hearth.
Local climate
Blackboarded 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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