Hill Crest is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
Hill Crest
- WRENN ID
- sharp-minaret-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Crest, the Plain, CM16 6SF
- OS grid reference
- TL 464 027
- Coordinates
- 51.70454, 0.11806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Crest is a late 18th or early 19th century building of two storeys and three windows. It is constructed of brick with flat arches. The windows are sash windows in exposed frames. The front doorway has a flat hood supported by brackets, panelled reveals, a fanlight with ornamental glazing bars, and a later glazed door. The roof is hipped and covered with tiles. A lower back wing is also present.
Local climate
Hill Crest 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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