Black Cat is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House, former public house. 1 related planning application.

Black Cat

WRENN ID
scarred-hall-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1984
Type
House, former public house
Address
Black Cat, Roman Road, Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding, CM5 0JJ
OS grid reference
TL 553 096
Coordinates
51.76424, 0.24985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Black Cat is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, consisting of one storey with attics. The roof is gabled and thatched, featuring a thatched lean-to at the southwest end. There is a central lean-to porch with a thatched roof supported by old oak posts. The front roof slope has three gabled dormers, and there is a very small red brick stack located off centre on the ridge line, along with a large modern brick stack at the rear. The windows are modern leaded light casements.

Local climate

Black Cat 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
  • 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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