The Niche is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Niche
- WRENN ID
- muffled-trefoil-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Niche, Harlow Road, Roydon, CM19 5HH
- OS grid reference
- TL 409 099
- Coordinates
- 51.77018, 0.04198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Niche is a house dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range with casement windows. There is a central doorcase that has a flat hood above it. The house also has an original central red brick chimney stack with attached diagonal shafts.
Local climate
The Niche sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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