The Brewers Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Brewers Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-chancel-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Brewers Arms Public House, Victoria Place, Brightlingsea, CO7 0BX
- OS grid reference
- TM 086 167
- Coordinates
- 51.81068, 1.02587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brewers Arms Public House is a building that dates back to around 1691, although it may have origins that are even earlier. It has undergone various alterations and additions over the years. The structure features a timber frame with a plastered front and a weatherboarded rear, topped with double ranges of red plain tiled roofs and central red brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics, and has lower ranges on the right side.
The facade includes three flat-headed dormers with small paned vertically sliding sash windows, and there are two similar dormers at the rear with 19th-century two-light casements. A dentilled cornice runs along the top of the building. The front has a three-window range, primarily consisting of tripartite small paned vertically sliding sashes. The central entrance features a four-panel two-light door flanked by fluted pilasters with moulded capitals and bases, and a dentilled soffit beneath the pediment.
On the right side, there is a single small paned vertically sliding sash window and an end chimney stack. The building has iron gutter brackets. The left return, which faces New Street, is weatherboarded and includes an attic and two first-floor small paned vertically sliding sash windows. There is a blocked shop front with three pilasters and a fascia, a three-light window, and an end window and door. The rear has two first-floor and three ground-floor windows, one of which is a bow window and another features a canopy on brackets. A gabled weatherboarded porch is located on the left side, with the lower left range having a single window and a 20th-century door, also with a canopy on brackets.
Notably, Philip Sainty, a pioneer of yacht building in England who constructed the schooner "Pearl" for the Marquis of Anglesea, lived in this building around 1790.
Local climate
The Brewers Arms 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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