Grange Court is a Grade II* listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1954. A C18 School boarding house. 12 related planning applications.
Grange Court
- WRENN ID
- small-mantel-amber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1954
- Type
- School boarding house
- Address
- Grange Court, High Road, Chigwell, IG7 6PT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 441 936
- Coordinates
- 51.62343, 0.08045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grange Court is a late 18th-century house, now serving as a school boarding house. It is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings and stucco. The house is aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with its entrance facing the road and its garden elevation to the southwest, and an ancillary wing to the northeast.
The northwest elevation is three storeys high and has five sash windows. A cill band runs along the first floor. There is a cornice with mutules and a plain capped parapet above. The central portico features fluted paired four-column Doric columns, with paired fluted consoles to the frieze, cornice, and blocking course. A round-headed doorway has an architrave and impost blocks. The central first-floor window is distinguished by an architrave, Corinthian half-pilasters, a fluted frieze with paterae, a cornice, and a dentilled segmental pediment. A one-storey wing slightly projects to the right, featuring round-headed stucco niches set within round-headed stucco recesses with Gibbs surrounds. This wing has a parapet with an apron and cornice, topped with a ball finial on a tall base. A similar wing to the left has been raised to two storeys, incorporating a plain, unbarred sash window and a replaced ball finial. Narrow sash windows are interspersed between these wings and the main house.
The southeast elevation, also of three storeys, is of stock brick with red brick window heads and five attic windows. It features two two-storey, curved brick bays with three sashes each, and a modillioned cornice. A two-storey stone central feature terminates in a pedimented central window flanked by draped urns, with a balustraded apron; a round-headed doorway is on the ground floor, flanked by narrow windows between Doric piers with a fluted frieze and cornice. A parapet runs along the attic level. To the right, a one-storey portion has three round-headed sash windows in stucco round-headed recesses with impost blocks, a band above, and a capped parapet. A similar section to the left has slightly larger windows, reducing the size of the borders in the recesses. The east wing is a square, two-storey "pavilion" of stock brick with red brick window heads and a tall wooden Venetian window on each floor. The pavilion has a capped parapet, a hipped roof of old tiles rising to an open cupola featuring Doric columns, a frieze, a cornice, a dome, and a vane.
Local climate
Grange Court 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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