Town House
TOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104891
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Town House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04252/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104891
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Town House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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.
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:
- TOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67465 30480
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD HIGH STREET (north-west side)
8/170 Town House 2.5.53
GV II
House, part of a larger house originally. C16, altered in C17 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4-bay main range facing SE, with one axial stack and C18 external stack at left end. C16 internal stack at right end, now at the partition between this house and Town House Cottages, formerly part of the same house (q.v.). C17 rear wing behind this stack (over- lapping Town House Cottages) at an acute angle to the main range, with C18 stack at end, and single-storey extension roofed with red clay Roman tiles beyond. C17 stair tower in rear angle. 2 storeys. 2 splayed bays with early C20 sashes of 8-16-8 lights. On first floor, 3 late C18 sashes of 16 lights. 6-panel door with 4 upper panels glazed, in moulded and pedimented doorcase, late C18. Hipped gablet at right end of roof. At the rear, one late C17 and one early C18 3-light window, each with one wrought iron casement. The interior has jowled posts, a chamfered axial beam with step stops, exposed plain joists of horizontal section, and underbuilt jetty. In the right wall of the rear extension there is a blocked early C17 window. On the first floor of the main range there is some C18 pine panelling. RCHM 24.
Listing NGR: TL6746530480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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