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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2003
- 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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