Chigwell Village Stores, Gorgys and Hilltop is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.

Chigwell Village Stores, Gorgys and Hilltop

WRENN ID
lesser-tracery-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Chigwell Village Stores, Gorgys and Hilltop, High Road, IG7 6QQ
OS grid reference
TQ 442 939
Coordinates
51.62572, 0.08225
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chigwell Village Stores, Gorgys, and Hilltop is an 18th-century house that has been divided into three parts. The building features a timber frame, with sections that are weatherboarded, mock timber framed with roughcast render, and plastered. It is topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles and is oriented approximately northeast to southwest, facing southeast.

The structure is two storeys high with attics. Chigwell Village Stores has a central glazed door and a slightly bowed shop window with 24 lights on each side. Above this, there is mock timber framing. On the first floor, there are three double-hung sash windows, each with 16 lights, dating from the early 19th century, along with a hipped dormer that contains a 19th-century casement window.

Gorgys features weatherboarding on the ground floor and mock timber framing above. The ground floor windows are from the 20th century, while the first floor has one 19th-century casement window and a hipped dormer with a 19th-century casement window.

Hilltop has a plastered ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor. It includes a 20th-century door and casement window on the ground floor, another casement window on the first floor, and a hipped dormer with a 19th-century casement window.

Local climate

Chigwell Village Stores, Gorgys and Hilltop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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