Wiggens Farmhouse
WIGGENS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122313
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wiggens Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WIGGENS FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2005-08-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/14781/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122313
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wiggens Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIGGENS 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:
- WIGGENS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Helions Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 66312 42394
Details
TL 64 SE HELIONS BUMPSTEAD WIGGENS GREEN 2/22 Wiggens Farmhouse 21/6/62 GV II
House, C16, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay range aligned approximately E-W with axial chimney stack at W end of middle bay, and N-S range of 3 bays at E end with axial chimney stack at N end of middle bay, forming an L-plan. Aspect S. Early C20 extension along full length of rear of E-W range. Single storey with attics and 2 storeys respectively. Door in front of tiled gabled porch, 4 casement windows, all C20. First floor, 2 C19 horizontally sliding sash windows of 8 lights, one C20 casement window, one more in gabled dormer. On main chimney stack, 2 recessed panels in base, with inscribed date 1598 in cement render, 4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases, partly cement rendered and rebuilt at top in C20. Interior has plain-chamfered axial beams with exposed joists of horizontal section in all except W bay. In E-W range floor is inserted and supported on clamps, in N-S range floor is original. Main chimney stack of late C16 brickwork, E-facing ground-floor hearth repaired with C20 brickwork. Unglazed window with 5 diamond mullions at first-floor level in internal wall between the 2 blocks, unweathered. Both roofs rebuilt. There is an estate map by Edward Hemlyn, 1781, in the possession of the owner, showing Wiggens Farm as an 83 acre holding. RCHM 10.
Listing NGR: TL6631242394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114112
- 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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