Prouds Farmhouse
PROUDS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112152
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Prouds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PROUDS FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12649/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112152
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Prouds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROUDS FARMHOUSE
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:
- PROUDS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thaxted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 60445 32663
Details
1. THAXTED
Prouds Farmhouse
TL 63SW: 2/2 7.2.52 II*
2. C14 hall house with gabled cross-wings, altered and extended in C16 and C17. Timber framed and plastered, with some frame exposed externally. Both wings are jettied on carved brackets. Red plain tile roof. 2 storeys. 1:3:1: window range C17 and modern casements. 2 modern bay windows. Late C16, two bay extension at rear, at north end jettied to south. Modern 2 storey rear extension. North cross-wing is C14 with ogee heads, service doors. Original crown post roof rebuilt. South cross-wing is C16 with side purlin windbraced roof. Central hall partially rebuilt in C17, with remains of original stretcher beam, with arched bracing, moulded and crenellated with elaborate chamfer stops. Some C17 pargetting survives. Outside mullioned windows and a C14 door. Red brick C17 chimney stack, with attached diagonal shafts. (RCHM 45).
Listing NGR: TL6044532663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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