ZE7 Lippitts Hill: Commander's Office is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 2003. Office.
ZE7 Lippitts Hill: Commander's Office
- WRENN ID
- winter-glass-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2003
- Type
- Office
- Address
- ZE7 Lippitts Hill: Commander's Office, Commanders Office, Metropolitan Police Training Centre, Loughton, Essex, Waltham Abbey, IG10 4AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 397 970
- Coordinates
- 51.65446, 0.01934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Commander's Office, built between 1939 and 1940 by the War Office, is a single-storey building with a rectangular plan. It features a timber-framed structure standing on a brick plinth, clad in timber rusticated weatherboard, and has metal casement windows. The shallow pitched tiled roof is topped with a central brick ridge stack.
The exterior includes three bays, with a central, recessed part-glazed door flanked by metal framed casement windows. Notably, the glazing bars are vertical, and there are small opening windows above, which distinguishes it from other buildings on the site.
Inside, the Commander's Office has a more domestic atmosphere compared to the other buildings, although it appears to have been refitted in the late 20th century. A corridor runs north to south through the center, providing access to small offices, a kitchen, and a bathroom, all equipped with late 20th-century fixtures and fittings. The carpentry is simple, featuring flat panel timber doors, while the 1940s ‘crittal’ style window furniture has been preserved.
Local climate
ZE7 Lippitts Hill: Commander's Office 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 97% 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 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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