Willows Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Willows Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-bracket-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willows Cottage, Wood Lane, Willingale, CM5 0QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 603 071
- Coordinates
- 51.73987, 0.32127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th and early 18th century cottage located on the south side of Wood Lane in Willingale. It is timber-framed and originally plastered, with a gabled roof covered in peg tiles. A brick and slate lean-to has been added to the rear. A red brick chimney stack rises from the ridge line, and there are two gabled dormers on the west roof slope. The timber frame is visible, featuring simple bracing. A decorative element from an earlier 17th century house - a mutilated half stair newel - is fixed above the original front door opening. 20th-century casement windows are set into the original window openings. The cottage retains a complete three-bay plan. A large, two-storey extension from the 20th century has been built onto the north end.
Local climate
Willows Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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