Headmasters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1984. House.
Headmasters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-panel-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Headmasters Cottage, Back Lane, Nazeing
- OS grid reference
- TL 414 061
- Coordinates
- 51.73642, 0.04751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Headmaster's Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays with a central chimney bay. There are two windows on the ground floor and three windows above, featuring 20th-century casements. The entrance is a plain central door, and there is an original central red brick chimney stack. On either side of the cottage, there are 20th-century lean-to extensions. Inside, the original frame is preserved, showcasing jowled storey posts and chamfered common joists. The cottage originally featured gables at the front.
Local climate
Headmasters 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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