Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-corner-thrush
- 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
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Nine Ashes, High Ongar, CM4 0LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 592 027
- Coordinates
- 51.70053, 0.3035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is an early 17th-century house. It is timber-framed and was originally plastered with a weatherboarded front. The roof is half-hipped and gambrel shaped, with sections covered in red plain tiles and red pantiles. The house has two storeys and a three-window front. It features 20th-century leaded casement windows. There are three gabled dormers, each with bargeboards, and a 20th-century gabled porch. A central chimney stack is constructed of original red brick. Group Value: The building contributes to the group value of the surrounding buildings.
Local climate
Walnut Tree Cottage 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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