The Shoes is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. House.
The Shoes
- WRENN ID
- muted-eave-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Shoes, the Street, High Ongar
- OS grid reference
- TL 565 037
- Coordinates
- 51.71034, 0.26406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shoes is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with the framing exposed on the outside and a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and consists of four bays, along with a chimney bay. The first floor features a range of four 20th-century casement windows, while the ground floor has 20th-century oriel bays. The original central chimney stack is made of red brick and has been partly rebuilt. The walls have through bracing, and the roof is supported by side purlins.
Local climate
The Shoes 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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