LITTLE MEADOWEND

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1122314
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: LITTLE MEADOWEND
Statutory Address:: LITTLE MEADOWEND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1122314
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: LITTLE MEADOWEND
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE MEADOWEND

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE MEADOWEND

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Ridgewell
National Grid Reference:: TL 74705 40290

Details

TL 74 SW RIDGEWELL 3/46 Little Meadowend

II*

Lobby-entrance house, c.1600, with later additions. Timber frame, plastered between exposed studding, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. N-S, with chimney stack in second bay from S against E wall, lobby- entrance and stair to W of stack. Stair tower added to E of stack, C17, later converted to 2 small rooms. External chimney stack at N gable, and 2 single- storey extensions beyond. 2 storeys with attics. 6-panel door with top panels glazed, C18. 3 C20 casement windows on ground floor, 4 on first floor. Grouped diagonal shafts on main stack, roof hipped to S. Blocked window with 2 hollow- moulded mullions to rear of S bay, ground floor. Blocked doorway rebated externally to N of stair tower. Evidence of 3 removed oriel windows on first floor. Timber frame exposed internally. Jowled posts, arched braces to tiebeams, arched bracing trenched to inside of heavy studding. In S bay, plain- chamfered axial beam scribed into transverse members, joists of horizontal section plain-chamfered with step stops. In bay to N of stack, plain-chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, otherwise as in S bay. Original framed stair trap to west of stack, short joists of horizontal section plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, later stair in aperture. Original rebated floorboards throughout, some covered by softwood boards. Grooves for sliding shutters. Large wood-burning hearths. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Original clasped purlin roof. Original newel stair to attic. Pine cupboard recessed into stack on first floor, with mouldings and carved diamond-shaped panel. C18 pine doors. The 1952 schedule records this building as plastered externally, with 2 C18 dormers. The external plaster was stripped, the dormers removed, some of the windows changed, and internal woodwork stripped, circa 1979.

Listing NGR: TL7470540290

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 114114
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.