Highams Farmhouse

Date:
20 Mar 2003
Location:
Highams Farmhouse, Aythorpe Roding, Uttlesford, Essex, CM6 1PF
Reference:
IOE01/10445/16
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 51 SE AYTHORPE RODING

5/8 HIGHAMS FARMHOUSE

II

Early C17 with C19 extension. Timber-framed, plastered, roof tiled, with brick extension. L-plan, comprising 3-bay SE wing of a former hall house, with brick NW wing. Two storeys. Entrance front has central 2-storey porch of plastered brick in Tudor style, C19, with original external stack to SE. Garden elevation has bay of 3 sash windows at SW end and 2 sash windows on ground floor, 3 sash windows and one arched cast iron window on first floor, all early C19. Panelling with fluted frieze, circa 1600, which RCHM reported in a garden pavilion, installed in lower SW room.

Roof rebuilt, re-using some smoke-blackened medieval rafters. Cast iron pump in wooden case against E corner. Moated site. RCHM 4.

Listing NGR: TL5997014984

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1982 IOE Records taken by Frank Swift; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Swift, Frank

Rights Holder: Swift, Frank

Keywords

Brick, Plaster, Tile, Timber, Tudor Hall House, Elizabethan Monument (By Form), Stuart House, Jacobean Domestic, Dwelling, Timber Framed House, Timber Framed Building, Moat, Water Supply And Drainage, Water Pump, Pump, Water Supply Site