Number 77 And Covered Passageway To South West And North East Cart Entrance

HIGH STREET 1. 885 (North West Side) BRAINTREE No 77 and covered passageway to south-west and north-east cart entrance TL 7523 1/117 25.10.51. II GV 2. A C15 or early C16 timber framed and plastered building altered in the C18 and later and now restored on the south-east front in C18 style, with plaster panels in the upper storey. The 1st storey has 2 large mullioned and transomed windows, slightly projecting, with glazing bars and a semi-circular arched centre lights. A cornice and frieze runs above the 1st storey windows. The ground storey has C20 shop fronts with a cornice and frieze above the shop windows. A long wing extends north-west at the rear, approached at the north end by a carriageway and at the south end by a covered passage way with exposed timber-framing and a 4-centred archway with chamfered orders. The wing at the rear is 2 storeys with exposed timber framing on the 1st storey on both sides. On the south west side the windows are horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars on the 1st storey and double hung sashes on the ground storey and on the north east side double-hung sashes with glazing bars. Roof slate on the main block and tiled at the rear. RCHM (21).

Nos 73 to 77 (odd) form a group with Nos 90 to 96 (even), 100, 102, 106 and 112.

Listing NGR: TL7557223010