Gothic Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage.

Gothic Cottage

WRENN ID
dark-lantern-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Gothic Cottage, Moreton Road, Ongar
OS grid reference
TL 546 050
Coordinates
51.72245, 0.23766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gothic Cottage is a Grade II listed building that was formerly a lodge, dating from the 18th or 19th century. It is constructed of brick and has a rough rendered finish, topped with a grey slate roof featuring a central pediment. The roof includes gable dormers on both the left and right sides, as well as pierced ridge tiles. The dormers and pediment are adorned with ball finials. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a three-window range of Gothic-headed windows. The pediment features a weatherboarded first floor and glazed infill with Gothic heads above a recessed porch. The return fronts of the building also have matching windows. There are diagonal, two-shaft chimney stacks located on both the left and right sides.

Local climate

Gothic Cottage 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 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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