Essex — Ongar, CM5
Chartered surveyors serving Ongar.
RICS home surveys and valuations across Ongar — from surveyors working across Essex who know the town's listed High Street, its period and Victorian stock and the surrounding villages first-hand.
Why it matters
Need a chartered surveyor or valuer in Ongar?
Yes. Ongar is part of the area we cover across Essex. Chipping Ongar is a historic market town in the Epping Forest district, laid out around a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, with a wide medieval High Street and more than a hundred listed buildings — it was one of the first places in the county to be designated a conservation area. The parish also takes in Shelley, Marden Ash and Greensted. Since the Central line branch closed in 1994 there has been no commuter train from the town, so it is served by Epping and Brentwood and the M11. Websters is a firm of RICS chartered surveyors and registered valuers, and our surveyors know this market well.
What we do here
Our services in Ongar
The reports CM5 clients ask us for most often. Each links through to full details, pricing and a sample report.
Home surveys
from £650 + VATRICS Level 2 and Level 3 surveys across Ongar's listed and period High Street property, the Victorian stock, the post-war housing at Shelley and Marden Ash and the modern infill throughout CM5.
Valuations
from £500 + VATRed Book Market Valuations for probate and inheritance tax, matrimonial and capital-gains purposes.
Leasehold reform
from £550 + VATLease extension and enfranchisement valuations on the flats and converted period buildings — a small part of a largely freehold-house market.
Party Wall
priced by scopeParty Wall Act notices, schedules of condition and awards for the extensions and loft conversions common across CM5.
Local knowledge
What we see in Ongar property
Ongar’s housing stock
The town is shaped by its medieval plan: a wide High Street, laid out for the market that grew up beside the Norman castle, with more than a hundred listed buildings along and around it and the 11th-century St Martin's church, built of flint rubble and re-used Roman brick. Victorian building followed the railway in 1865 — Budworth Hall dates from that period — and the twentieth century brought post-war expansion at Shelley, the more modern southern arm at Marden Ash, and infill and conversions, including housing on the former Great Stoney school site. Greensted and the surrounding hamlets are rural and dispersed.
Listed & period property: usually a Level 3
With so much of the town listed or within the conservation area, the older stock generally calls for a Level 3 Building Survey rather than a Level 2 — roofs and timbers, structural movement, damp and the practicalities of a building that may be several centuries old. Alterations here need listed-building and conservation-area consent, so on any extended or altered property we check what was done and whether it carried the right approvals. On the post-war and modern stock a Level 2 HomeBuyer survey is often enough.
Green Belt, the Roding & a town without a station
Three things shape value and risk here. Almost all of the parish is Green Belt — only a small fraction is developed — so extension and new building face tight planning control, and local opposition to development is well established. The River Roding and Cripsey Brook run close to the town, so on low-lying property we weigh river and surface-water flood risk, to be confirmed through the searches. And since the Central line branch closed in 1994 there has been no commuter train: the town relies on Epping and Brentwood, which is a real factor in how it is valued against its better-connected neighbours.
Nearby
Areas around Ongar
Common questions
Ongar surveyors — your questions
Yes — Chipping Ongar, Shelley, Marden Ash, Greensted and the streets and villages across CM5, an area we cover. Much of our team works across Essex; when you instruct us, an RICS surveyor who knows the area inspects the property.
Much of our team works across Essex, so we can usually arrange a survey or valuation in Ongar within a few working days, and often sooner. Tell us the address and the report you need and we will confirm availability when we quote.
On a listed or period building we recommend a Level 3 Building Survey — the roof and timbers, any structural movement, damp and the practicalities of an old building. We flag listed-building and conservation-area consents on anything that has been altered, and the Green Belt constraints on any plan to extend. Near the Roding or Cripsey Brook we also note the flood position, to be confirmed through the searches.
Home surveys start from £650 + VAT, valuations from £500 + VAT and leasehold reform valuations from £550 + VAT; Party Wall work is priced by scope. We give a fixed quote once we know the property and the report you need.
Tell us about your property
Give us a few details about the Ongar property and the report you need, and we'll come back with a fixed quote.