The Compasses
THE COMPASSES, CLACTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1112132
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Compasses
- Statutory Address:
- THE COMPASSES, CLACTON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08270/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1112132
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Compasses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COMPASSES, CLACTON 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:
- THE COMPASSES, CLACTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Oakley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16664 26435
Details
GREAT OAKLEY CLACTON ROAD TM 12 NE (north-east side) 3/24 The Compasses
- II
House. C15, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with interlocking concrete tiles. 3 bays facing W, with an external stack at each end. C20 flat-roofed extension to rear of right end. One storey with attics. 2 C19 casements, and 3 C19/early C20 casements in gabled dormers. C20 door. The interior of the ground floor is largely concealed by modern finishes, but 2 chamfered arched braces to the central tiebeam of the former hall, and the chamfered transverse beam of an inserted floor, c.1600, are apparent through paper. The framing is exposed in the upper right room (the right bay of the former hall), with jowled posts, heavy studding, cambered tiebeam, and crownpost roof. The central crownpost has wide 4-way bracing, and the roof is complete, and smoke-blackened. This building has been converted in the C19 to a pair of cottages, each with its external stack and separate stair; this arrangement remains, although now one house again, and is responsible for the fact that the central tiebeam of the former hall is intact. Shown with a farm of 32 acres, named Compasses, owned and occupied by Samuel Dennis, in the tithe award of 1841 (Essex Record Office, D/CT 258).
Listing NGR: TM1666426435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120266
- 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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