Harmes Farmhouse
HARMES FARMHOUSE, MANOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111189
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Harmes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HARMES FARMHOUSE, MANOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111189
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Harmes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARMES FARMHOUSE, MANOR ROAD
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:
- HARMES FARMHOUSE, MANOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lambourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 47567 94128
Details
TQ 49 SE LAMBOURNE MANOR ROAD, 5/32 Harmes Farmhouse
GV II
House of medieval origin, now substantially C17 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approximately NE-SW, with axial chimney stack in SW bay. Crosswing at SW end with external chimney stack at NW gable. Single-storey lean-to extension at NE end, C19. 2 storeys. SE elevation, ground floor, 6-panel flush door with top panels glazed and shallow moulded hood, late C18, 3 C20 casement windows with shallow moulded hoods, late C18. First floor, 3 C20 casement windows and one semi- circular window with intersected tracery. Firemark embedded in plaster, with design of a phoenix with oblique spear behind and slogan 'Protection'. In NE gable 2 C18 windows, one consisting of 2 fixed lights and one wrought iron casement in hardwood frame, the other of one wrought iron casement only. Some framing exposed internally. In crosswing jowled posts and axial beams.with lamb's tongue stops. In main block, unjowled posts. Axial chimney stack late C16, much repaired at ground floor level. This house originated as a medieval hall, probably with the service end to the SW. In the late C16 a chimney stack and floor were inserted in the hall, both substantially present. In the early C17 a parlour crosswing was built at the SW end, and the NE end became the service end, as it is still. In the C18 the side walls of the hall were raised or rebuilt, to provide 2 full storeys, and the roof was rebuilt. RCHM 20.
Listing NGR: TQ4756794128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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