Shellow 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 Cottages

WRENN ID
fading-stair-dust
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 Cottages, 1 2, Shellow Road, Willingale
OS grid reference
TL 610 079
Coordinates
51.747, 0.33144
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shellow Cottages is a pair of cottages, likely originally a single house, dating from the mid 17th century. They are constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring 20th-century decorative pargetting. The roof is covered with plain concrete tiles, hipped at both ends, and has a large original square chimney stack in the center. The ground floor of part of the frontage includes some painted brick. The windows are 20th-century casements, and each cottage has a 19th-century door surround with a flat hood supported by imitation 17th-century scroll brackets. There is also a 20th-century boiler flue on the west end. Inside, the cottages reveal four bays of 'box frame' timber framing made from good quality timber, although they lack jowls.

Local climate

Shellow 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • 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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