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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Date:: 2003-03-24
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 114119
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.