Garwood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Garwood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- graven-gallery-scarlet
- 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
- Address
- Garwood Cottages, Norton Lane, High Ongar, CM4 0LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 600 045
- Coordinates
- 51.71658, 0.31603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garwood Cottages is an early 16th-century house. It was originally timber framed and subsequently plastered, with a red plain tile hipped roof. The house has two storeys and originally featured a four-window range of windows, now replaced with 20th-century casements. A 16th-century red brick chimney stack has been partly rebuilt. The timber frame is exposed internally, revealing storey posts with jowls and cut bearings, and heavy internal wall bracing. The roof structure includes an arch braced side purlin roof. Features of the original construction visible inside include soffit tenons with diminished haunches to the floor joists. There are also remnants of the original window positions, with mortices indicating the former presence of diamond mullions, and two cross-entry doorways with Tudor arches.
Local climate
Garwood Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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