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
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- 77, High Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 859 288
- Coordinates
- 51.92743, 0.70247
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
Local climate
77, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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