WASH FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122316
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: WASH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: WASH FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122316
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: WASH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WASH 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:: WASH FARMHOUSE

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 72331 40470

Details

TL 7240-7340 RIDGEWELL 6/1 Wash Farmhouse

GV II

Long-jetty house, mid-C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with interlocking concrete tiles. 3 bays aligned approximately NE-SW, aspect SE, with external chimney stacks at both ends, C19. Single-storey rear extension with axial chimney stack and slate roof, early C20, forming a T-plan. 2 storeys. C20 door, 4 C20 casement windows on ground floor, 3 on first floor. 4 plain brackets exposed below jetty, original, remainder covered. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, close studding. Transverse beam with double ogee mouldings between SW bay and middle bay. In SW bay, axial beam plain- chamfered, joists of horizontal section plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. In NE bay, joists similar, axial beam roll-moulded. In middle bay, plain axial beam. Crownpost roof almost complete, plain crownposts with axial braces only. This house has had a chimney in the middle bay, probably a timber framed chimney originally, later replaced by a brick stack, but this was removed, and the middle floor rebuilt, when it was converted to 2 cottages in the early C19, with external chimney stacks. Later it was returned to one house. RCHM 15.

Listing NGR: TL7233140470

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 114117
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.