Wood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage.
Wood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- western-cobble-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wood Cottages, North Weald Bassett
- OS grid reference
- TL 476 083
- Coordinates
- 51.75445, 0.1376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Cottages is a pair of cottages from the early 19th century that have now been combined. They are timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of 19th century red clay Roman tiles. The cottages feature a central chimney stack located in the partition wall between them. The building is two storeys high and has a plain boarded door. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows, and on the first floor, there are two casement windows, dating from the 19th or 20th century.
Local climate
Wood Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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