Perry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Perry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-turret-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Perry Cottage, Matching, CM17 0PZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 536 108
- Coordinates
- 51.77565, 0.2254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Perry Cottage is a block of cottages from the early 19th century that has been converted into one house and extended in the 20th century. The building is timber framed, with a combination of plaster and weatherboarding, and features a thatched roof. It is oriented approximately northwest to southeast, with a northeast aspect. There is a chimney stack located behind the ridge near the northwest end and an external chimney stack at the southeast end. At the rear of the northwest end, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension with a catslide roof. A single-storey flat-roofed extension was added at the southeast end in the 20th century. The cottage has two plain doors, one of which is set in a 20th-century gabled porch. On the ground floor, there are four cast iron casement windows with 24 lights, and four smaller similar windows in eyebrow dormers, all dating from the 19th century. The lower portion of the building is weatherboarded, while the upper section is plastered. The complete set of cast iron windows is particularly valuable, as they are often found in a fragmented state elsewhere.
Local climate
Perry Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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