White Horse Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Public house. 4 related planning applications.

White Horse Public House

WRENN ID
south-solder-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1973
Type
Public house
Address
White Horse Public House, 2, Church Street, Witham, CM8 2JL
OS grid reference
TL 818 152
Coordinates
51.80664, 0.63563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Horse Public House is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building located on Church Street. It features a cross wing at the north end and has been altered and expanded in the 18th century. The cross wing has a jettied upper storey on the west front, while both the main block and the cross wing have 19th-century shaped bargeboards on their gables. The main block consists of one storey with attics, and the cross wing has two storeys. The 18th-century windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in flush cased frames. The roof is tiled and includes one gabled dormer on the main block. The White Horse Public House, along with Nos 4 and 6, forms a group with No 18 and the Smithy, Nos 20 to 30 (even), the Parish Church of St Nicholas, the Vicarage, No 35 (Barnardiston), and Nos 43 to 55 (odd) Chippinghill. It also forms a group with Nos 14 (Recess) and 16 (Bramstons) on Chippinghill.

Local climate

White Horse Public House 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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