The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. House. 7 related planning applications.

The Old House

WRENN ID
dusted-basalt-quill
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
The Old House, Stapleford Tawney, CM16 7PX
OS grid reference
TL 500 021
Coordinates
51.69805, 0.16936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old House is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features a crosswing on the right and a separately built crosswing on the left, which now includes a single-storey extension at the front. The house has one storey and an attic, with a window arrangement of 1:2:1 consisting of 20th-century small paned casements that are diamond leaded. The left extension has two windows, while the right crosswing has a two-window bay. There is a central 20th-century small paned door and a central red brick chimney stack. The roof construction includes queen strut side purlins. There may also be a remnant of a moat nearby.

Local climate

The Old 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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