Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-fireplace-smoke
- 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
- Brook Cottage, Mutton Row, Stanford Rivers, CM5 9QQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 532 013
- Coordinates
- 51.68981, 0.21626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located off Mutton Row in Stanford Rivers. It is timber-framed with a rough render finish, and has weatherboarding on the rear elevation. The roof is hipped and covered with red pantiles. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window front. It features 19th-century casement windows and two vertically boarded doors. A central chimney stack is constructed of red brick.
Local climate
Brook 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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