The Old Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.

The Old Mill House

WRENN ID
over-steel-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
The Old Mill House, Ongar Road, Stapleford Abbotts
OS grid reference
TQ 499 975
Coordinates
51.65665, 0.16661
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Mill House is a house from the 18th century, associated with Passingford Mill located about 200 meters to the southeast. It has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It is aligned approximately north-south with an eastern aspect, featuring a chimney stack on the south wall and an internal chimney stack at the north end. There is a 19th-century chimney stack at the northwest corner.

The house has a single-storey extension to the north, which is roofed with red clay Roman tiles, and a small single-storey extension at the southwest corner, both dating from the 19th century. The structure has two storeys.

On the eastern elevation, there is a central glazed door from the 20th century with a simple doorcase and a moulded and bracketed hood from the 18th century. There is one 20th-century double-hung sash window in its original opening, which has a segmental brick arch, and one 20th-century casement window in a widened opening. On the first floor, there are two double-hung sash windows—one from the early 19th century and one from the 20th century—along with a 20th-century bow window in its original opening. A dentilled course runs below the eaves.

The roof consists of three parallel ranges aligned east-west, presenting three hipped ends. A schedule from 1952 noted diagonal shafts on the north chimney stack, which are no longer present. On the south gable end, there is a wooden sundial, although one plank is missing, with the remains of a painted inscription that reads 'AD 1635 Horas non numero nisi serenas'.

Local climate

The Old Mill 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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