John Barleycorn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. A Medieval Public house.
John Barleycorn Public House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-cobalt-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- John Barleycorn Public House, High Laver
- OS grid reference
- TL 500 092
- Coordinates
- 51.76161, 0.17325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The John Barleycorn Public House is a house dating from the 15th century, which has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries and is now used as a public house. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a slate roof, adorned with ornamental bands of round-edged slates. The building consists of a north-south block that is single storey with attics, alongside a two-storey crosswing to the south that jetties to the east. There is an axial chimney stack located at the junction of the north-south block. A 19th-century extension to the west of the crosswing includes a chimney stack at the junction.
There are flat-roofed single-storey extensions to the northwest, north, and northeast, which were added in the 20th century. On the south elevation, there are two plain boarded doors set within 20th-century flat-roofed porches, an oriel window, and a casement window on the ground floor, along with three casement windows on the first floor, all dating from the 20th century. The east and west gables are covered with handmade red clay tiles. Inside the crosswing, some timber is exposed on the ground floor. A transverse beam is plain chamfered and is jointed to another beam with central tenons and housed soffits. Although the north-south wing was not examined, its overall design is consistent with that of a medieval hall, with some roof rebuilding occurring in the 19th century.
Local climate
John Barleycorn Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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