Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26463516

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings