Wren House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
Wren House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-cornice-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Wren House, 152, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 553 029
- Coordinates
- 51.70406, 0.24632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren House is a shop, dating back to the 16th century with significant alterations in the 18th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a red plain tiled roof that is hipped at the front and to the right return. The eaves project, supported by a moulded cornice. It is two storeys high. The front of the building has one window, and two return windows, all with late 18th-century small-paned sash windows in moulded architraves. On the ground floor, the front face features an 18th-century bow window and a 20th-century part-glazed door, set within an original opening. Three pilasters with plain bases and moulded capitals support moulded and dentilled window and door heads, topped by a plain fascia with a projecting, moulded cornice. The entrance is approached by three steps with wrought iron baluster rails. The right return has two 18th-century sash windows. A 20th-century three-board door is centrally placed, with an 18th-century surround and a moulded soffit under a flat canopy supported by brackets. A central red brick chimney stack is visible.
Local climate
Wren House 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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