The Butlers Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Butlers Retreat
- WRENN ID
- sunken-marble-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green MP: Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Butlers Retreat, Rangers Road E4, E4 7QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 397 947
- Coordinates
- 51.63447, 0.01851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Butlers Retreat is a detached house, likely built in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding on a brick base and has an old tiled roof that is steeply pitched to the eaves. The house is two storeys tall and consists of three bays, with a one-storey lean-to bay on the left side. There are exposed timber posts between the bays, and the central entrance is square-headed with a planked door. The windows are square-headed casements with timber hoods. The rear facade is similar to the front but includes a long central window and exposed rafters. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Butlers Retreat 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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