Willowcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. House, forge. 1 related planning application.
Willowcroft
- WRENN ID
- seventh-loggia-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- House, forge
- Address
- Willowcroft, Walls Green, Willingale, CM5 0QW
- OS grid reference
- TL 618 066
- Coordinates
- 51.73498, 0.34291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willowcroft is a house and former forge dating from the mid 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a peg tile roof that is gabled at the south end and half hipped at the north end. At the south end, there is a lean-to made of boarding that covers an arch-topped inglenook type fireplace featuring wrought iron arched lintel bars. The exterior displays a mix of 19th and 20th century casement windows. Inside, the timber framing from the mid 17th century is visible, along with stop-chamfered bridging joists that frame the stack opening.
Local climate
Willowcroft 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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