Hardings is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. A C16 House.

Hardings

WRENN ID
keen-kitchen-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1984
Type
House
Address
Hardings, Nine Ashes, High Ongar
OS grid reference
TL 593 026
Coordinates
51.69998, 0.30381
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hardings is a house dating from the mid-16th century or earlier, originally designed as an open hall house. It features a gabled and jettied crosswing to the south. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building stands two storeys high, with an additional storey in the attic, and has a three-window range of 20th-century leaded casements. There are two gabled dormers and a 20th-century lean-to brick porch. The house has red brick chimney stacks, with the one at the south end being a restored 16th-century feature that includes attached diagonal shafts.

Local climate

Hardings 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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