77, HIGH STREET
77, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170187
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 77, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 77, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170187
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 77, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 77, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 77, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earls Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85910 28883
Details
TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE HIGH STREET (north side)
8/78 No. 77 (Formerly listed 7.8.52 as The Castle Inn)
GV II
House, now public house. C14-c.1600. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Left crosswing late C14 with C19 external stack to left, right crosswing mid-C16, extended to rear c.1600, with axial stack. Middle range c.1600 with axial stack at right end, on site of former open hall. 2 storeys. Both crosswings were formerly jettied and gabled to the street, now with a continuous facade incised in imitation of ashlar, the roof of the middle range oversailing those of the crosswings, with gablets. 4 C19 sashes with marginal lights on ground floor and 3 on first floor. C20 door and C20 oriel window under shared canopy. Main stack has 6 grouped diagonal shafts, stack in right wing has 3 grouped diagonal shafts. Much of the frame is exposed internally. Stop-chamfered and moulded beams. The right ground-floor room has a wall-painting above the fireplace depicting the miraculous draught of fishes, on each side of which is an hourglass, cherub's head, flower and skull, and a pair of crouching lions with swags above, inscribed 'The houer runneth and Time flieth as flower fadeth, so man dieth, sic transit gloria' (restored c.1700). RCHM 6.
Listing NGR: TL8591028883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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