Cottages Immediately South of the Mole Trap is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottages.
Cottages Immediately South of the Mole Trap
- WRENN ID
- heavy-wall-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Cottages Immediately South of the Mole Trap, Stapleford Tawney
- OS grid reference
- TL 500 013
- Coordinates
- 51.69052, 0.16932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two cottages located immediately south of The Mole Trap, likely dating from the 17th century. They are timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The cottages are one storey high with attics and feature four gabled dormers, each with six-paned casement windows. There is a three-window arrangement of small-paned casements on the front. Lean-to porches are present on both the right and left sides, each with 20th-century small-paned glazed doors. An off-centre attached square chimney stack made of red brick is also a notable feature.
Local climate
Cottages Immediately South of the Mole Trap 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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