Forest House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1954. House. 3 related planning applications.
Forest House
- WRENN ID
- waning-pilaster-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forest House, Vicarage Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 453 929
- Coordinates
- 51.61664, 0.09808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest House is a house built around 1800. It is constructed of stock bricks, and the roof is not visible behind a parapet. The building has a double pile design, with the entrance facing northwest and two chimney stacks on each side wall. There is a 19th-century two-storey extension to the northeast.
The entrance features a blocked central doorway at the top of six stone steps, leading to a porch supported by two columns and pilasters, which have simple foliate capitals and a dentilled cornice. The northwest elevation has four late 19th-century double-hung sash windows, each with four lights, set under flat arches of gauged brick in shallow recesses with round arches of gauged brick. On the first floor, there are five original double-hung sash windows with twelve lights, also under flat arches of gauged brick. The second floor has five late 19th-century double-hung sash windows with six lights. The parapet includes a stucco string course.
On the southeast garden elevation, the ground floor has five full storey height double-hung sash windows with twelve lights. The first floor features five French windows that open onto two-storey cast iron balconies; the ground floor balconies have a lattice design, while the first floor balconies display a Greek key design and a tented canopy. Some damage is noted on the scalloped edge, and the floors have been reinforced with steel girders. Inside, there is some pine panelling, and a complete set of folding internal shutters is present on the ground and first floors.
Local climate
Forest House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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