Audrey Ruth, Worleys and Godfrey is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Shop, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
Audrey Ruth, Worleys and Godfrey
- WRENN ID
- kindled-stone-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- Audrey Ruth, Worleys and Godfrey, 199-205, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JG
- OS grid reference
- TL 552 030
- Coordinates
- 51.70507, 0.24535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Audrey Ruth, Worleys and Godfrey is a building located on Ongar High Street, originally constructed as dwellings in the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. The structure features a timber frame, with sections covered in weatherboarding and rough render, and some original rusticated pargetting still visible. It has a red plain tiled roof, with a gabled crosswing on the left side. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window range consisting of 17th-century iron casements with three leaded lights. There are five shopfronts, four of which date from the 19th century. The three shopfronts on the left have small panes and half-glazed doors. Number 203 features a 19th-century bay with decorative mouldings on the fascia and segmental-headed windows with mouldings on the mullions. Number 205 has a three-light window, each light divided by two mullions, with segmental heads and moulded infill, alongside a half-glazed door with a moulded surround, a canopy, and brackets.
Local climate
Audrey Ruth, Worleys and Godfrey 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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