Bowles Farmhouse
BOWLES FARMHOUSE, ASHEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122317
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Bowles Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOWLES FARMHOUSE, ASHEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122317
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Bowles Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWLES FARMHOUSE, ASHEN ROAD
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:
- BOWLES FARMHOUSE, ASHEN ROAD
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 73822 41406
Details
TL 74 SW RIDGEWELL ASHEN ROAD 3/39 Bowles Farmhouse (formerly 21/6/62 listed under General) II
House, C16 and C17, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Hall range aligned approx. NE-SW, with 2-bay NE crosswing with chimney stack in NE wall, and 3-bay SW crosswing with chimney stack at junction with hall range. NW extension from NW crosswing with gambrel roof, C17, and single-storey lean-to extension beyond, roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. Single-storey extension to NE of NE crosswing, roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. Flat roofed single-storey extension to SW of SW crosswing, C20. 2 storeys. SE (garden) elevation, 2 storey splayed bay of C20 casement windows on SW crosswing, 2 other C20 casement windows on each floor. Interior much altered. The SW crosswing has a plain-chamfered beam with lamb's tongue plus bar stops. The NW extension has a beam with lamb's tongue stops. Clasped purlin roofs. The roof of the hall range has been raised by approx. 1 metre in the C18, the earlier weathering still present on the chimney stack. Some smoke-blackened medieval rafters have been re-used in this roof. RCHM 13.
Listing NGR: TL7382241406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114119
- 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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