Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
old-entrance-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Wood Lane, Willingale, CM5 0QU
OS grid reference
TL 600 070
Coordinates
51.73951, 0.31689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a late 16th-century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a gabled thatched roof and an off-centre small ridge line stack. The windows consist of a mix of old, painted, small-paned casements. The cottage is composed of two bays, with an additional 20th-century extension bay on the east end. It has large jowled posts and corner bracing, including one post with an unusual reversed convex curvature. The layout likely includes an open hall with a combined service and solar bay at the west end.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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