Blackbush Farmhouse
BLACKBUSH FARMHOUSE, HOOK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111198
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Blackbush Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKBUSH FARMHOUSE, HOOK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111198
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Blackbush Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKBUSH FARMHOUSE, HOOK 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:
- BLACKBUSH FARMHOUSE, HOOK 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 48777 95141
Details
TQ 49 NE STAPLEFORD ABBOTTS HOOK LANE 2/20 Blackbush Farmhouse II
Farmhouse, late C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, frame exposed externally with C20 brick infill on ground floor, plaster infill above, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay main range aligned approx. N-S with C18 chimney stack at S end. Aspect W. 2-bay service crosswing to N, with central chimney stack, C17. 2-bay parlour crosswing to S, with C17 stair tower in rear angle. Single-storey lean-to extension to N of N crosswing, C19. Single-storey extension to E of N crosswing, C20, roofed with red interlocking tiles. 2 storeys. W elevation, door in gabled porch, 3 casement windows on ground floor and 7 on first floor, all C20. Yellow brick infill on ground floor only. Later external frame on S wall of S crosswing, with primary scraight bracing and C20 red brick infill on L-round floor only. Blocked unglazed window in S wall of N crosswing, first floor. A structural break is apparent between the N crosswing and the main range, but indicating a phased building programme in the same period. Beams plain-chumfered and stopped (=iariJus types), joists mostly exposed, unchamfered in N wing, chamfered and stopped in S wing. All roofs of clasped purlin construction, with arched wind bracing. Hearths and internal surfaces altered in C20. .;
Listing NGR: TQ4877795141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118689
- 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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