Essex House

Description

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

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GREAT EASTON THE ENDWAY (South Side) Essex House

TL 62 NW: 4/102 20.2.67

GV II

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House, mid-C16, timber framed and plastered of 2 storeys with a gabled peg tile roof and gabled 2 storey extension on rear. A 'long-wall-jetty' house with externally exposed timber frame, with solar and 1 large chamber on first floor over service rooms, cross-passage, fire bay, hall and parlour. The front has C20 metal casements with leaded lights, on the ground floor is one canted bay to the hall and a 'V' shaped bay to the parlour, both with coved soffits. Later stack in fire bay, rectangular above roof line and just forward of the ridge. Rear has hipped open porch on NE end and one gabled roof dormer. Timber frame and bracing is remarkably complete, although restored. Interior reveals inglenook fireplace chamfered and arch braced structure and remnants of crown post roof. Halved and bladed scarf joints. (RCHM 12).

Listing NGR: TL6065725444

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0963 IOE Records taken by Joan Herring; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mrs Joan Herring. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project