Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage.

Chestnut Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Chestnut Cottage, Matching
OS grid reference
TL 536 109
Coordinates
51.77582, 0.22528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of 20th-century red clay corrugated tiles. The cottage is aligned approximately northwest to southeast and faces northeast. There is no chimney stack on the main building. At the northwest end, there is a single-storey extension with a roof made of 19th-century handmade red clay pantiles, which features an axial chimney stack that was rebuilt in the 20th century. Additionally, there is a lean-to extension at the rear of the middle of the cottage. The cottage has two storeys, a plain door, and three casement windows from the 19th and 20th centuries on each floor. The roof is hipped at both ends.

Local climate

Chestnut 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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