51, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage.
51, High Street
- WRENN ID
- still-gargoyle-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 51, High Street, Ongar
- OS grid reference
- TL 551 027
- Coordinates
- 51.70222, 0.24393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 51 High Street is a cottage from the 18th century, attached to Nos. 53 and 55. It features a painted brick front with a timber-framed and plaster core, and has a hipped roof covered in grey slate. The building is two storeys high and has one window range with small-paned double-hung sliding sashes from the 18th century. There is a central band and a six-panel door to the right, which is topped by a round brick arch and a well-crafted round-headed fan light. A central chimney stack made of gault brick is also present.
Local climate
51, 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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