The Shoulder of Mutton Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The Shoulder of Mutton Public House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-truss-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Shoulder of Mutton Public House, Halstead Road, Fordham, CO6 3LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 271
- Coordinates
- 51.90992, 0.7907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shoulder of Mutton Public House is a 14th century house with later additions, designed in an H plan. It has two storeys, framed in timber, and is clad with painted weatherboard and plaster. The building features ridged and gabled roofs that are covered with peg tiles. All jetties are underbuilt, and the ground storey is rendered. A main chimney stack made of red brick is located behind the ridge near the north return. On the west side of the hall roof, there are two hipped dormers. The first storey has three sash windows with glazing bars and exposed boxes, one in each wing and one in the hall. The ground storey has modern casement windows. Inside, there is significant evidence of 14th century construction, including a heavy frame with jetties to the west, bare faced soffit tenons on the floor joists, and later bolection moulded panelling.
Local climate
The Shoulder of Mutton Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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