COOTES FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122294
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: COOTES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: COOTES FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122294
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: COOTES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COOTES FARMHOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COOTES FARMHOUSE

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 69168 39995

Details

TL63 NE STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD 4/5 Cootes Farmhouse 7/8/52 II

House, C16, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Hall range aligned approx. N-S, jettied at the N end, with axial chimney stack at S end. Crosswing to S, jettied to the E, and 2 S extensions with end chimney stack. 2 storeys. E elevation, 6-panel door, 3 tripartite double-hung sash windows of 4-12-4 lights, early C19, and one C20 casement window. Bressumer with running vine carving on 2 plain brackets. First floor, 4 late C17/early C18 windows, each with one wrought iron casement, and 1,2,1 and 1 fixed lights respectively, with rectangular leading, and one C20 casement window. The bressumer of the gable projects and is carved with running vine ornament, and below it 2 brackets similarly carved form a depressed arch, with 3 turned pendants. The bargeboards are original and similarly carved, with a modern finial. Grouped diagonal shafts on main chimney stack. The glass of one of the first-floor front windows has an inscription on the outside 'John Choat 24 Feb 1778', probably the glazier. RCHM 30.

Listing NGR: TL6916839995

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 114169
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.