Hermitage Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Hermitage Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-wicket-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hermitage Cottage, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 552 032
- Coordinates
- 51.70647, 0.24529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hermitage Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the late 18th century. The cottages are timber-framed with rough rendering to the walls, and weatherboarding to the ground floor. The roof is covered in red plain tiles. The cottages have two storeys and feature four ranges of three-light iron casement windows with diamond-leading and pightle hinges. The ground floor windows have Gothick heads. A recessed area in the centre of the front has two wooden posts, a central passageway, and two centred openings, with hooped iron railings across the recess. There are two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Hermitage Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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