The Greyhound Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Greyhound Public House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-span-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Greyhound Public House, 62, High Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9AZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 039 216
- Coordinates
- 51.85646, 0.95953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Greyhound Public House is an early 19th-century building located on the east side of Wivenhoe High Street. It is constructed of painted brick in Flemish bond and features two storeys with a hipped slated roof and a red brick chimney stack. The first storey has a range of three hornless sash windows, and there is a semi-hexagonal bay window at the south. At the north end, there is a projecting wooden bar front with two doors and windows in between, leading up to the main entrance door at the south. Inside, the pub contains a 17th-century timber frame along with a central chimney breast and hearth.
Local climate
The Greyhound Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 application
- 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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