Stone Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Stone Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hearth-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Stone Cottages, 2, Little Laver Road, CM17 0RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 541 101
- Coordinates
- 51.76907, 0.23304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two stone cottages, located on Little Laver Road in Little Laver. The buildings date from the late 15th century, originally a small open hall house, and were significantly altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The original timber frame and plaster are now covered in flint, with red brick dressings. The roof is covered in grey slate. The cottages are one storey high with attics. They have a three-window front with 20th-century casement windows set in 19th-century openings. A gabled dormer is visible. A 19th-century extension is located at the rear, and red brick chimney stacks are present.
Inside, much of the original timber frame remains, including jowled storey posts, arch braced and cambered tiebeams, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The roof was re-roofed in the early 19th century above the top plates. A late 16th-century chimney stack is centrally located, partly rebuilt in the 19th century. A floor was inserted into the centre bay in the 16th century. A decorative iron pump from the 19th century is situated at the rear.
Local climate
Stone Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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