Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
night-chancel-gilt
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
Bridge Cottage, Romford Road, Stanford Rivers, CM5 9PH
OS grid reference
TL 542 005
Coordinates
51.68216, 0.22965
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with a wing at the rear. The roof is plain red tiled and includes two gabled dormers. The front has a two-window range of small paned casements. There is a central three-board door that is sheltered by a plain red tiled porch supported by brackets. To the right of the building, there is an external red brick chimney stack.

Local climate

Bridge 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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