Greensted House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Greensted House
- WRENN ID
- graven-wattle-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Greensted House, Ongar, CM5 9LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 523 033
- Coordinates
- 51.70864, 0.2035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greensted House is an 18th-century house with 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of brick with York stone rusticated quoins, and features a crosswing on the ground floor. The building has moulded bands at the centre and eaves cornice, supported by double lion mask brackets. The roof is hipped and covered in grey slate.
The front facade has two storeys and a three-window range of four-panel vertical sliding sashes. The first-floor windows have moulded surrounds, while the ground-floor windows have moulded surrounds and scroll brackets to the moulded flat canopies and cills, which are supported by cast iron posts and rails.
A central enclosed porch with double-glazed doors is accessed by steps with four urns. The porch features moulded pilasters, a dentilled frieze with paterae, and double scroll brackets to a dentilled and moulded cornice. Plastered chimney stacks are located to the left and right of the building.
A 19th-century range is situated at the rear, incorporating bay windows and a hipped grey slate roof. Inside, the house retains a fine internal staircase and decorative mouldings.
Local climate
Greensted House 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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