Blixes Farmhouse

Date:
1 Sep 2001
Location:
Blixes Farmhouse, Fairstead, Braintree, Essex, CM3 2BJ
Reference:
IOE01/02593/23
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TL 71 NE FAIRSTEAD RANK'S GREEN (south side)

2/24 Blixes Farmhouse

GV II

House, extended to form 2 houses. Early C17, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing N, with axial stack in second bay from right end. Wing to rear of right bay, with axial stack, forming an L-plan, and C20 single-storey lean-to extension beyond. Large C20 extension to left of main range with axial stack, combining with the 2 left bays to form a separate house. Main range of 2 storeys, rear wing of one storey with attics. Ground floor, 3 C20 splayed bays of casements, and one C20 casement. First floor, 3 C20 casements. Large hipped porch with C20 door.

Roof half-hipped at both ends. Jowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops in both ranges.

Listing NGR: TL7583117926

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2111 IOE Records taken by Peter J Wade; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter J Wade. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Wade, Peter J

Rights Holder: Wade, Peter J

Keywords

Clay, Plaster, Tile, Timber, Tudor Farmhouse, Elizabethan Domestic, Stuart Agricultural Dwelling, Jacobean Dwelling, House, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Timber Framed House, Monument (By Form), Timber Framed Building