The Owl Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1953. Inn.

The Owl Inn

WRENN ID
ghost-wattle-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1953
Type
Inn
Address
The Owl Inn, Waltham Abbey
OS grid reference
TQ 398 969
Coordinates
51.65438, 0.02031
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Owl Inn is a building from the 18th century, possibly covering an earlier structure. It features a weatherboarded front and roofs that are a mix of old and machine tiles, with three ridges. The central ridge is hipped and covered with bitumen sheeting, while the south roof has a gable on the side elevation. There is some brickwork that has been partly whitewashed. The building has five sash windows with small wooden hoods, one casement window on the left, and two casement windows along with a canted bay window on the ground floor of the north side elevation.

Local climate

The Owl Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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