School House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. School. 4 related planning applications.
School House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-parapet-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- School House, the Street, High Ongar, CM5 9NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 564 037
- Coordinates
- 51.71051, 0.26278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House, built in 1867, is a village school located in High Ongar. It features red brick construction with black brick string courses and a red plain tile roof, which includes a part crested ridge. The building has a 'T' shaped plan, with the schoolmaster's house at the southern end, which projects forward and has a higher, hipped roof facing north. The house has three-light casement windows, while the vertical sliding sashes are adorned with flat, two-centred arches made of varied-coloured brick. The north gable showcases paired three-light sashes with columns, moulded bases and capitals, and a recessed two-centred arch above. A central stone plaque is present, along with lean-to porches that have red plain tile roofs. The main entrance features a half-hipped design. The roof is detailed with bargeboards and sprockets, and there are gabled dormers and red brick chimneys.
Local climate
School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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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- 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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