Nicholas Faulkner the Chocolate Box is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. House/shop.
Nicholas Faulkner the Chocolate Box
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-ember-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- House/shop
- Address
- Nicholas Faulkner the Chocolate Box, 147, High Street, Ongar
- OS grid reference
- TL 552 029
- Coordinates
- 51.70391, 0.24533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nicholas Faulkner, known as The Chocolate Box, is a building that has been converted from a house into two shops. It likely dates from the 18th century and underwent alterations in the 19th century. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a grey slate roof that is hipped to the left. It stands three storeys tall and features a two-window range of double hung, small paned sliding sashes set in moulded surrounds. The shop at No. 149 has a 20th-century shop window, a glazed door, fascia with inverted brackets, and a moulded flat canopy. The shop at No. 147 has a 19th-century part glazed door and surround, along with a glazed shop front that includes small panes at the top. There is also an ornate cast iron vent strip and a moulded fascia above the shop front.
Local climate
Nicholas Faulkner the Chocolate Box 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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