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

Willow Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-span-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Period
Victorian
Address
Willow Cottage, Matching
OS grid reference
TL 537 108
Coordinates
51.77548, 0.22677
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage that features a timber frame, which is plastered and weatherboarded, topped with a thatched roof. The building is oriented approximately north-south with an eastern aspect and has a central chimney stack. At the southern end, there is a single-storey lean-to extension that has a roof made of 19th-century red clay Roman tiles. There is also a lean-to extension at the rear, which is roofed with 20th-century corrugated tiles. The cottage has two storeys. On the eastern elevation, the ground floor includes three 19th or 20th-century casement windows and a gabled porch that is roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. The first floor features two 19th or 20th-century casement windows. The dado is weatherboarded, and the internal framing is exposed, showcasing primary straight bracing.

Local climate

Willow 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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