The Rainbow and Dove Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Rainbow and Dove Public House

WRENN ID
weathered-cloister-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1984
Type
Public house
Address
The Rainbow and Dove Public House, Hastingwood Road, North Weald Bassett, CM17 9JX
OS grid reference
TL 482 074
Coordinates
51.74584, 0.14577
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rainbow and Dove public house is a 17th-century building that has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and is topped with handmade red clay tiles. The structure consists of four bays oriented approximately northeast to southwest, with an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the northeast and an external chimney stack at the southwest end.

There is a single-storey extension to the southeast, which dates from the 19th century and has an external chimney stack on the northeast side. A second single-storey extension to the northeast, built in the 20th century, is weatherboarded and has an asphalt-tiled roof. The building is primarily single-storey with attics.

The public house has two 20th-century doors and features two horizontally sliding sash windows with eight lights from the late 19th century, as well as one 20th-century casement window and one double-hung sash window with twelve lights from the late 19th century, located in the gable end of the southeast extension. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows. Inside, the southwest bay contains plain chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops.

Local climate

The Rainbow and Dove Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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