Mulberry House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A C18 House.

Mulberry House

WRENN ID
hushed-pillar-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Mulberry House, High Ongar Road, CM5 9NL
OS grid reference
TL 561 038
Coordinates
51.71207, 0.2593
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mulberry House, formerly listed as the Rectory, is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a double range hipped roof covered with red plain tiles. The building has three storeys and cellars, along with a two-storey adjoining service wing, also in red brick with a hipped roof.

The house has a five-window range on the front, with original and 19th-century vertical sliding sash windows that include glazing bars and are topped with gauged brick arches. There is a parapet and a red brick band. A Doric porch enhances the entrance, featuring columns, pilasters, panelled reveals, a frieze with metopes and paterae, and a pediment above. The main entrance has a six-panelled door.

To the west, there is a small single-storey extension with a red brick bay window. The west front has a three-window range with 18th-century vertical sliding sashes, some of which have 20th-century decorative headboards. The rear features a simple pediment doorcase with pilasters, a vertical sliding sash window, and cill height doors below. The east front also includes a pedimented doorcase and a six-panelled door within panelled reveals.

The service range retains parts of an earlier structure and includes a re-used 17th-century leaded three-light window. Red brick chimneys are located on the centre wall. Inside, much of the original detailing remains intact, including doors, window shutters, fire surrounds, skirtings, and architraves.

Local climate

Mulberry 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 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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