Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1984. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.
Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-lime-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park Cottage, High Road, Epping Upland, CM16 4DJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 444 009
- Coordinates
- 51.68899, 0.08811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, built with a timber frame and covered in weatherboarding, featuring a red plain tile roof. The house has a 3-bay plan plus a chimney bay. It has a 5-window front, with 19th and 20th century casement windows. A lean-to porch is present, roofed with red pantiles. A large original red brick chimney stack, partially rebuilt, is visible, alongside an 18th century wall chimney stack.
Local climate
Park 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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