MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE

MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1111227
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

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Date:: 2002-05-01
Reference:: IOE01/01745/22
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1111227
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MARCHINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Chigwell
National Grid Reference:: TQ4633795490

Details

TQ 49 NE 2/1 28.6.54

CHIGWELL GRAVEL LANE Marchings Farmhouse

II

House of C16 or C17 origin, much altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Complex plan consisting essentially of main range aligned approx. NW-SE with axial chimney stack near NW end, aspect SW, service range to rear of SE end with one internal and one external chimney stack, crosswing at NW end, several rear extensions. 2 storeys with attics. SW elevation: ground floor, one C20 half-glazed door, french windows of Gothick style, C19, 3 Gothick casement windows, one not. First floor, 2 C19 casement windows, one C20 casement window, 3 dormers with C20 casements. Attic floor: one C19 casement window in gable of crosswing, leaded casement window, C20, and lean-to dormers with C19 casement windows. The interior is mainly C19, including many Gothick features. One blocked unglazed window with 2 diamond mullions is present on the first floor of the SE elevation, and a beam with lamb's tongues stops is exposed near the SW entrance. Stone column bases of a structure of unknown origin have been exposed approx. 4 metres N of the house. The occupation of the site has been traced in a report by Dr.F.G. Emmison of Essex Record Office dated 6 October 1949, beginning in 1427, and another by C. Johnson of Chigwell Public Libraries. The rear parts of the house incorporate the workshops of John Roger Arnold, 1736-1843, maker of chronometers and watches, who bought the house in 1800 (G.H. Baillie: Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World).

Listing NGR: TQ4633795490

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Legacy System number:: 118552
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Baillie, G H , Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.