Farmhouse and Attached Dairy at Easneye Dairy Farm 470 Metres North East of Mansion
FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED DAIRY AT EASNEYE DAIRY FARM 470 METRES NORTH EAST OF MANSION, HOLLYCROSS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049049
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse and Attached Dairy at Easneye Dairy Farm 470 Metres North East of Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED DAIRY AT EASNEYE DAIRY FARM 470 METRES NORTH EAST OF MANSION, HOLLYCROSS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049049
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse and Attached Dairy at Easneye Dairy Farm 470 Metres North East of Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED DAIRY AT EASNEYE DAIRY FARM 470 METRES NORTH EAST OF MANSION, HOLLYCROSS ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED DAIRY AT EASNEYE DAIRY FARM 470 METRES NORTH EAST OF MANSION, HOLLYCROSS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanstead Abbots
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38362 13813
Details
TL 31NW STANSTEAD ABBOTS HOLLYCROSS ROAD (east side) 5/18 Farmhouse and attached Dairy at Easneye Dairy Farm 470 metres NE of mansion
GV II Farmhouse and attached ornamental dairy. Circa. 1868 by Waterhouse for T F Buxton of Easneye. Red brick with diapering of black headers. Tilehung upper floor of farmhouse. Steep red tile roofs. T-plan 2-storeys farmhouse with single storey rear range linking to a tall single-storey octagonal buttressed ornamental dairy at NE. Entrance to both through a recessed logia on the N with blind pointed arcading on rear wall and 3-bay arched braced timber front under an extension of the tiled roof. Farmhouse jettied on N on moulded brick corbells with moulded bressumer and bargeboard to gable over. Small wooden casements under segmental arches. Cusped tilehanging in apex of gable. Clustered octagonal shafts to tall central chimney. The design is similar to Waterhouses's Double Lodge for Easneye of 1866 (q.v.). Dairy has 3-light chamfered brick traceried windows with leaded glazing in cathedral glass under a single equilatereral arch on 4 front faces. Diagonal buttresses with tumbled brick offsets, moulded plinth and string course and corbelled ornamental eaves courses, supporting a cast iron gutter trough. Finial and 4 small gabled vents. Interior of dairy vaulted with stone ribs rising from corbels and red and black brick panels below a moulded string at high sill level blue tiling with impressed Gothic geometric pattern down to white marble bench all round supported on chamfered timber brackets with cooling pipes under. Deep ornamental band at top of tiling of oxblood slips and white on blue flower scroll with frieze of lobed geometric pattern tiles in blue. Encaustic tile pattern floor, mainly red with black net and buff junctions. Border of diamond set black tiles on white ground with red and buff bands each side. An impressive picturesque group. The ornamental dairy is of exceptional interest.
Listing NGR: TL3836213813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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