Houbridge Hall Farmhouse

HOUBRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, STONES GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1112136
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Houbridge Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HOUBRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, STONES GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1112136
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Houbridge Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HOUBRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, STONES GREEN 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HOUBRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, STONES GREEN 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 17463 26887

Details

GREAT OAKLEY STONES GREEN ROAD TM 12 NE (north side) 3/37 Houbridge Hall Farmhouse

II

House. C16, altered in C18 and C19. Partly timber framed, clad with painted brick and plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles, and partly of gault brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. 2-bay range facing SE, with axial stack at left end. 3-bay crosswing to right extending forwards, and single-storey extension beyond, roofed with red clay pantiles. Early C19 crosswing to left (possibly incorporating an earlier and smaller crosswing), with 3 internal stacks against the outside walls, irregularly arranged. Early C19 extension in rear angle, with hipped roof of tiles. 2 storeys. The left crosswing is faced with gault brick. The entrance elevation of the left crosswing has an early C19 sash of 16 lights on each floor, with cast iron lintels and handmade glass, 2 similar dummy windows of painted plaster (in front of a stack), and on the first floor a blocked central sash with semi-circular head and moulded label on scrolled brackets. 6-panel door with plain overlight and simple portico. The left return has on the ground floor 2 French windows and 2 sashes of 12 lights, and on the first floor 2 similar sashes and 2 tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights, all with cast iron lintels, and some crown glass. The lintels have honeysuckle and other ornament, and are on scrolled brackets, datable to the 1840s. Plain string course below the first-floor windows, and parapet with moulded cornice. Hipped roof of low pitch, of slate. The main range has jowled posts, chamfered binding beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section, all with step stops. Over the blocked large wood-burning hearth is a cogged spit mechanism, a rare feature. Between this range and the rear elevation is an early C19 window of 18 fixed lights, with handmade glass. The roof is of clasped purlin construction.

Listing NGR: TM1746326887

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
120279
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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