Rose and Crown Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Rose and Crown Inn
- WRENN ID
- ragged-terrace-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Rose and Crown Inn, Ongar Road, CM15 9JH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 578 956
- Coordinates
- 51.6371, 0.28023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rose and Crown Inn is a public house dating back to the late 16th century, with subsequent alterations in the early 17th, late 17th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of timber framing, with rendered walls and significant replacement brickwork on the ground floor, and has a peg-tiled roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, comprising a main range and a cross-wing.
The exterior displays a northeast front elevation with 20th-century casement windows; the ground floor has two windows of three lights each, and the first floor three windows of two lights. A red brick stack, built in the early 20th century, sits at the apex of the roof where the two units meet. The southwest elevation, at the rear, is partly obscured by 19th and 20th-century additions. The main range has a single-light window with leaded diamond panes on its first floor. The cross-wing also features a first-floor window, of two lights. A 19th-century red brick addition is located directly behind the main range, now with a flat roof and a 19th-century stack where it joins the timber-framed structure. Additional 20th-century features include a front door with an upper glazed panel, a single-light casement in a segment-headed opening, a door with two large glazed panels, and a lean-to on the northwest side of the 19th-century extension. The southeast end has a 20th-century three-light casement window above an extension. Exposed on the northwest end, the wall above the 20th-century extension reveals 17th-century brickwork cladding over the timber frame, now colourwashed, with a 20th-century two-light window.
The interior ground floor has been heavily rebuilt and features imitation timber framing. The building sequence includes a late 16th-century main range with a slightly cambered tie-beam and halved and bridled scarf joint in the wall plate. An early 17th-century cross-wing has a tie-beam with curved arched bracing and raking queen struts; its principal floor joists possess lamb's tongue chamfer stops. A later 17th-century roof raised the main range to the level of the cross-wing, creating two full stories. The rear bay of the cross-wing was likely rebuilt during this time, evidenced by rudimentary primary braced studding. Historic records describe a principal stack of early 17th-century design, of a "cross shaped" configuration set diagonally, presumably contemporary with the cross-wing. Single-story 20th-century additions on the northwest and southeast ends are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Rose and Crown Inn 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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