Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-doorway-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Matching
- OS grid reference
- TL 510 108
- Coordinates
- 51.77555, 0.18801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from around 1800 that have been converted into one house. The building has been altered and extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast render and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The structure consists of four bays aligned east-west and includes two axial chimney stacks. There are single-storey lean-to extensions to the north, as well as a two-storey crosswing to the west and a single-storey lean-to extension to the north of it, both added in the 20th century. At the eastern end, there is a porch that is also from the 20th century. The house is single-storey with attics, except for the crosswing. On the ground floor, there are five 20th-century casement windows and a halved door. The first floor has two 20th-century casement windows and three gabled dormers with 20th-century casement windows. The frame is partly exposed internally, with no jowls and primary straight bracing. The roof was probably thatched originally. The building is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Willow Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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