Gardeners is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage.
Gardeners
- WRENN ID
- distant-ember-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gardeners, Shellow Road, Willingale, CM5 0ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 608 079
- Coordinates
- 51.74694, 0.32849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardeners is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, featuring a half-hipped thatched roof with one gabled thatched dormer on the front slope. There is a small red brick ridge line stack positioned off-centre above the original inglenook fireplace. The windows are 20th-century leaded light casements.
Local climate
Gardeners 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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