Forest Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1976. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Forest Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rooted-wall-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forest Cottages, North Weald Bassett, CM16 6LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 478 038
- Coordinates
- 51.7135, 0.13868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Cottages is a pair of cottages from the 17th or 18th century that have been converted into one house. The building features a timber frame with weatherboarding on the west elevation and plaster on the other sides. It has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles and is oriented approximately north-south. There is an internal chimney stack at each end of the house, with the main aspect facing west. Lean-to extensions are present on the east and south sides. The structure is two storeys high and includes two tiled gabled porches. The windows are a three-window range of 20th-century wooden casements. The roof is half-hipped at the north end and hipped at the south end, extending over the lean-to to create a catslide.
Local climate
Forest Cottages 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 98% 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 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- 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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