Olives Farmhouse
OLIVES FARMHOUSE, MURTHERING LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111156
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Olives Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLIVES FARMHOUSE, MURTHERING LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111156
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Olives Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLIVES FARMHOUSE, MURTHERING LANE
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:
- OLIVES FARMHOUSE, MURTHERING LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stapleford Abbotts
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 51597 95337
Details
TQ 59 NW STAPLEFORD ABBOTTS MURTHERING LANE 3/15 Olives Farmhouse II
Crosswing of C15 hall house, with extensions of the C17/18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Service crosswing aligned approx. E-W, originally jettied to the E, of a hall house which formerly extended to the S, demolished. Replaced on the same site by a C17/18 building of 2 storeys with hipped roof. Internal chimney stack at the junction, blocking the eastern of a pair of twin doors originally opening off the cross-entry of the medieval hall into the service crosswing. 2-storey rear extension, C20. Single-storey lean-to extension in NW angle, C20. Single-storey extension to N, C20. 2 storeys. E elevation, 6-panel door in middle of C17/18 range, simple doorcase with shallow hood, late C18/early C19. 3 C20 casement windows. First floor, 4 C20 casement windows. In crosswing, exposed joists of horizontal section, unchamfered. Some exposed heavy studding. One of a former pair of service doorways with 4-centred arched head, blocked. Both ground floor hearths substantially altered in C20.
Listing NGR: TQ5159795337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118690
- 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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