The Crown and Thistle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Crown and Thistle Inn
- WRENN ID
- third-lancet-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Crown and Thistle Inn, High Street, Great Chesterford, CB10 1PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 509 427
- Coordinates
- 52.06277, 0.20011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown and Thistle Inn is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from around 1500, featuring a cross wing at the west end. An adjoining 19th-century flint and brick structure at the east end is now part of the inn. The original section has plastered panels on the front, with a decorative band of plasterwork between the storeys. The building has two storeys and a three-window range with casement windows that include glazing bars. The ground floor has three small bays topped with tiled roofs, and there are three gables at the rear. The roof is tiled and features an original chimney stack with two octagonal shafts. Inside, there is a plaster fire surround from around 1500. The 19th-century addition is made of flint with red brick quoins and dressings, stands two storeys tall, and has a higher storey height than the original inn. This section also has a three-window range with casement windows, a slate roof, and a brick dentilled eaves cornice.
Local climate
The Crown and Thistle Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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