Shellow Cross Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Shellow Cross Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- swift-railing-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Shellow Cross Farm Cottages, 1 2, Shellow Road, Willingale, CM5 0SU
- OS grid reference
- TL 615 079
- Coordinates
- 51.74719, 0.33873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shellow Cross Farm Cottages are a pair of handed two-storey cottages dating from the mid-17th century. They are constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring black boarded ground floors. The cottages have a hipped roof made of machine-made clay plain tiles, which includes a large, square central ridge line stack and a pair of early 20th-century stacks on the rear roof slope. Each cottage has identical gabled two-storey rear extensions and lean-to black boarded extensions at both ends. The front of the cottages displays four two-light 19th-century casement windows with small panes, positioned above similar casements and central doorcases that have flat projecting hoods for each unit. The interior reveals a well-framed structure without jowls, featuring a central stack bay and some reused timber. The spine beam includes a moulded impost with two large cymas.
Local climate
Shellow Cross Farm 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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