Thatched Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottages
- WRENN ID
- peeling-plaster-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottages, 1-3, Foster Street, North Weald Bassett, CM17 9HZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 089
- Coordinates
- 51.75954, 0.15337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This row of cottages, known as Thatched Cottages, dates from the late 17th century and has been combined into a single structure. The cottages are timber framed with a weatherboarded lower section and plastered upper section, topped with a thatched roof. There are red brick chimney stacks located at the junctions between the cottages. The buildings are single storey with attics and feature plain boarded doors, six 20th-century casement windows, and four eyebrow dormers with 20th-century casement windows. The roof is hipped at both ends, and there are 20th-century extensions at the rear. Inside, the timber framing is exposed, showcasing primary straight bracing and stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
Thatched Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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