129, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Cottage.

129, High Street

WRENN ID
tired-pilaster-harvest
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
129, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JA
OS grid reference
TL 552 029
Coordinates
51.70354, 0.24531
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cottage, dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a weatherboard plinth and a red plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range of 18th-century double hung sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a moulded eaves cornice. To the left, there is a 20th-century panelled door, and to the right, a 19th-century board door with a fascia above it. A central red brick chimney stack is present.

Local climate

129, 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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