Tanyard
TANYARD, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122272
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tanyard
- Statutory Address:
- TANYARD, WATER LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122272
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tanyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- TANYARD, WATER 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:
- TANYARD, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67722 41025
Details
TL64 SE STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD WATER LANE 2/45 Tanyard
GV II
House, C16 or earlier, extended in C17 and C19, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing but mainly imitation framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned NE-SW with chimney stack in second bay from NE end. C17 stair and closet extension to NW of next bay to SW. Main range extended to SW by approx. 1.50 metres in C18, with chimney stack to NW. C17 extension to NW, with C19 end chimney stack. C19 extension to NW of main range and stair tower, with catslide roof. 2 storeys. SW elevation, exposed framing but mainly imitation, with 4-window range of C20 casements. The ground floor of the C17 NW extension is faced with C19 brickwork. Some original C17 framing is exposed externally on the NW side of the stair tower. The interior has plain-chamfered axial beams with plain stops and plain joists of horizontal section in the 3 bays to the SW of the main stack, and original rebated floor- boards above. The central tiebeam is steeply cranked, with jowled posts and one arched brace present. The roof of the middle bays was originally crownpost construction, but has been rebuilt in clasped purlin form re-using the original rafters. The roofs of the 2 end bays were probably hipped originally, and of half-storey height, but the main wallplates have been extended and the end bays raised to full 2-storey height in the C17.
Listing NGR: TL6772241025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114218
- 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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