50, Sheering Lower Road is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. A Tudor Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
50, Sheering Lower Road
- WRENN ID
- young-window-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- 50, Sheering Lower Road, CM21 9LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 492 144
- Coordinates
- 51.80877, 0.16335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 50 on Sheering Lower Road is a crosswing building dating from the 16th century, which has been altered in the early 19th century and extended in the 20th century. It now functions as two cottages. The structure is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and has a roof made of machine-pressed tiles.
The building is two stories high and consists of two bays aligned approximately east-west. It is likely the crosswing of a larger house that has since been demolished. The interior has been partitioned to create two separate cottages, with an external chimney stack added at each end in the early 19th century. There are single-storey lean-to extensions with slate roofs at both ends, dating from around 1900.
To the north, there is a parallel range of the same length as the crosswing, which has two stories and a flat roof, built in the 20th century. There is also a single-storey lean-to extension at the full corner. On the south elevation, the ground floor features six 20th-century casement windows and two plain boarded doors, with no openings above. The roof is half-hipped at the west end and gabled at the east. Notable interior features include jowled storey posts, stop-chamfered beams, joists with a horizontal section, and a clasped purlin roof with curved wind bracing.
Local climate
50, Sheering Lower Road 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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