77, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

77, High Street

WRENN ID
gilded-crypt-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
Public house
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 77 is a house that now operates as a public house, dating from the 14th century to around 1600. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The left crosswing is from the late 14th century and features a 19th-century external stack on the left side. The right crosswing dates to the mid-16th century and was extended to the rear around 1600, with an axial stack. The middle range, built around 1600, also has an axial stack at the right end, located on the site of a former open hall. The building has two storeys, and both crosswings originally jutted out and had gables facing the street. Now, there is a continuous facade that mimics ashlar stonework, with the roof of the middle range extending over the roofs of the crosswings, which have gablets.

The ground floor features four 19th-century sash windows with marginal lights, while the first floor has three sash windows. There is a 20th-century door and a 20th-century oriel window under a shared canopy. The main stack has six grouped diagonal shafts, while the stack in the right wing has three grouped diagonal shafts. Much of the timber frame is exposed inside, showcasing stop-chamfered and moulded beams. In the right ground-floor room, there is a wall painting above the fireplace that depicts the miraculous draught of fishes, flanked by hourglasses, a cherub's head, flowers, skulls, and a pair of crouching lions with swags above. The inscription reads, "The houer runneth and Time flieth as flower fadeth, so man dieth, sic transit gloria," and this was restored around 1700.

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