Rent Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage.
Rent Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-gallery-rook
- 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
- Rent Cottage, Mount End, Theydon Mount
- OS grid reference
- TL 488 009
- Coordinates
- 51.68738, 0.15146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rent Cottage is a 16th to 17th century cottage that is timber framed and plastered. It features a red plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right, with a gabled dormer on the hip and three gabled dormers on the front. The cottage has one storey and attics, and a six-window range of 20th century leaded casements. There is a gabled open porch with a red plain tiled roof, supported by straight brackets, and a boarded door with a light. A red brick chimney stack is located to the right. Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams and through bracing to the walls, re-used smoked timbers in the roof structure, and an original brick fireplace.
Local climate
Rent 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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