The Greyhound is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Pub, inn. 2 related planning applications.

The Greyhound

WRENN ID
haunted-threshold-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
Pub, inn
Address
The Greyhound, 26, Church Street, Coggeshall, CO6 1TX
OS grid reference
TL 851 226
Coordinates
51.87191, 0.68777
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Greyhound is a timber-framed building, dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, with alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. It was formerly The Greyhound Inn until 1972. The main range faces northwest and comprises two bays, built in the 16th century, with two rear stacks. A two-bay wing, projecting from the left bay, is jettied to the right and dates from the 15th century, with a later 19th or 20th-century extension beyond. An 18th-century two-storey extension sits to the rear of the right bay, enclosing the jetty, and a 20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof extends beyond.

The building is now plastered with a red machine-made tile roof. The ground floor has two early 19th-century tripartite sashes, each with 4-16-4 lights. The first floor has two early 19th-century sashes of 16 lights, featuring crown glass, and a 20th-century sash in a matching style above the entrance door. A recessed early 19th-century six-panel door sits on the line of the original front wall, with curved plaster on either side. The remaining length of the jetty is underbuilt. Above the door, exposed timber displays carved flowers in a diaper design, apparently the bressumer, which is otherwise concealed by plaster. Internally, a chamfered axial beam remains, with unstopped spine beams with run-out stops, plain horizontal joists jointed to it with unrefined soffit tenons. Jowled posts and curved braces trenched inside the studs are also present. Studs have been removed from the ground-floor partition between the bays. The left wall of the left ground-floor room is fully lined with 18th-century pine panelling. A modern staircase, designed in an early 19th-century style, is also present. The rear wing has a crownpost roof with a cambered middle tiebeam, a chamfered brace, and a chamfered square crownpost, although the upper part is inaccessible.

Local climate

The Greyhound sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Radon risk assessment
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