Four Elms Nursery is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Nursery.

Four Elms Nursery

WRENN ID
lesser-loggia-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1974
Type
Nursery
Address
Four Elms Nursery, Holyfield Road, Waltham Abbey
OS grid reference
TL 386 030
Coordinates
51.70938, 0.00585
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Four Elms Nursery is a building dated 1531, located on Holyfield Road. It has undergone significant restoration and features a combination of plaster and roughcast with timber posts exposed on the ground floor. The roof is machine tiled, and the structure is two storeys high with five flush casement windows that include glazing bars. There is a lean-to on the right side of the building.

Local climate

Four Elms Nursery 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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