Pearces Bakers, Sworders Ongar Insurance is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Shop. 5 related planning applications.
Pearces Bakers, Sworders Ongar Insurance
- WRENN ID
- sunken-courtyard-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Pearces Bakers, Sworders Ongar Insurance, 161 and 163, High Street, CM5 9JD
- OS grid reference
- TL 552 029
- Coordinates
- 51.70424, 0.24531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, now comprising three shops, likely dates to the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It is timber-framed and rendered with decorative plasterwork panels. The roof is covered in red plain tiles, with two gabled crosswings on the right side and a small hipped dormer window from the 17th or 18th century on the left side. The building is two storeys high with attics. There are six windows in total: three are 17th-century leaded casements with mullions and transoms, while the ground floor has three built-out shops with smaller windows, half-glazed doors, and signage over. A front chimney stack is constructed of red brick and is positioned off-centre.
Local climate
Pearces Bakers, Sworders Ongar Insurance 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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