Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. House.

Chestnut Cottage

WRENN ID
sunken-gravel-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1974
Type
House
Address
Chestnut Cottage, Holyfield Road, Waltham Abbey
OS grid reference
TL 385 029
Coordinates
51.7086, 0.00406
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Cottage, dating from the 17th or 18th century, is a two-storey building located on Holyfield Road. It features a timber frame with a weatherboarded ground floor and a whitewashed roughcast first floor. The roof is hipped and covered with old tiles. The cottage has two flush Yorkshire casement windows with glazing bars and a small doorhood supported by cut brackets. An eaves cornice adds to its architectural detail.

Local climate

Chestnut 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 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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