J W M Bough Chemist is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House, shop. 6 related planning applications.
J W M Bough Chemist
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-jade-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- J W M Bough Chemist, 151 and 153, High Street, Ongar, CM5 9JD
- OS grid reference
- TL 552 029
- Coordinates
- 51.70403, 0.24533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th or early 17th century house, later used as a shop and currently occupied by J.W.M. Bough, the chemist. The building is timber-framed and plastered with a red plain tiled roof, featuring three gables to both the front and rear. It is two storeys high plus attics. There are C19 small-paned double-hung sash windows in the attics, and a further three C19 small-paned double-hung sash windows on the first floor. The shop front is a C19/C20 addition, with a centrally recessed glazed and leaded door, a smaller door to the right, and a plank and muntin door on the left. A prominent original chimney stack rises from the centre of the building, featuring eight octagonal shafts with moulded bases.
Local climate
J W M Bough Chemist 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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