134-140, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Shop. 4 related planning applications.

134-140, High Street

WRENN ID
rusted-flagstone-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Shop
Address
134-140, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JH
OS grid reference
TL 552 029
Coordinates
51.70377, 0.24581
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a group of three shops with extensions to the rear, dating back to the 17th century or earlier, and altered in the 18th century and later. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with red clay tile roofs. It is two storeys high, with attics over numbers 136 and 138. Number 140 is two storeys high. Number 138 has a gable with 19th-century bargeboards and a late 19th-century window in the attic. The first floor has a three-by-two-by-three window arrangement of small-paned, vertical sliding sash windows. Those to number 138 are 19th-century and have pentice boards above; those to number 136 are 18th-century and have moulded architraves. The building has projecting shop fronts. Number 140 has a 20th-century shop front and a part-glazed door. To the left of number 138, there's a 20th-century shop front and a glazed door, with a 19th-century window to the right and a moulded fascia. Number 136 has a coved and moulded fascia, with three fluted pilaster strips, decorative capitals, a moulded base and weatherboarding below the window to the right.

Local climate

134-140, High Street 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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