Sewards End Farmhouse

Description

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

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE REDGATES LANE, Sewards End 669-1/4/383 No.13 17/06/82 Sewards End Farmhouse

II

House. C17 with C19 additions, refaced in 1948. Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, peg-tiled roofs. Plan rectangular. 2 storeys and attic and cellars. Front S elevation: twin gables with rebuilt cruciform stack between and central projecting front doorway. Brick faced, shaped barge-boards to gables and porch. 2 window range, all 1948. 3-light casements with transoms 3x4 panes in all. Doorway has moulded architrave, overlight, moulded 4 panel door. Stack set low between gables, flank of gable to E at E end. Rear N elevation: twin gables as front, timber-framed and plastered above brick base. Central C19 stacks to each, E one exterior. 4 scattered windows, 1 ground floor metal framed C19 with 3 lancet heads, one sliding sash window on first floor, single attic window to each gable.

W side elevation: S end brick as on front with contemporary 3-cant ground floor bay window. To N, plastered framing over brick base, 3 window first floor range of C19 sliding sashes plus 2-light casement window inserted. Ground floor, 2 doors, one 3-light sliding sash window with inserted 2-light casement, simple long 4-light window, cellar hatch door. E side elevation: front unit of house projects as gabled wing, brick faced. N return wall timber-framed and plastered, range to N also bricked, scattered casement windows mainly from refurbishment. Central ridge stack with hipped dormer window in line. 2-light casement. Single boarded door. N end gable stack visible. INTERIOR: not inspected but house appears to have begun as a 2-celled lobby entrance building re-aligned in C19 at right angles as 2 parallel ranges. Front elevation wall was plastered framing up to 1948.

Listing NGR: TL5711138536

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1583 IOE Records taken by Tony Phillips; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Tony Phillips. Source: Historic England Archive

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