Hockings Bakery, J Dwyer and Bowden and Son is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Bakery. 11 related planning applications.
Hockings Bakery, J Dwyer and Bowden and Son
- WRENN ID
- empty-stone-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- Bakery
- Address
- Hockings Bakery, J Dwyer and Bowden and Son, 121 to 127, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 552 029
- Coordinates
- 51.70349, 0.24528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hockings Bakery, along with numbers 121 to 127 on the west side of Ongar High Street, comprises four cottages, now used as shops. The building dates to the 17th and 18th centuries and has a timber-frame structure, now rough-rendered. It has a red plain tiled roof, hipped to the left, with extensions to the rear. The building is two storeys high, with a four-window front featuring 19th-century small-paned double-hung sliding sash windows. Four 20th-century shop fronts are present, with glazed doors and fascias above. A red brick chimney stack is situated off-centre, along with two others at the rear. Group Value: It contributes to the group value of buildings in this location.
Local climate
Hockings Bakery, J Dwyer and Bowden and Son 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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