Craigs
CRAIGS, FINCHINGFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122334
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Craigs
- Statutory Address:
- CRAIGS, FINCHINGFIELD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2004-09-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/13064/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122334
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Craigs
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRAIGS, FINCHINGFIELD 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:
- CRAIGS, FINCHINGFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stambourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7151937856
Details
TL 73 NW
5/17
STAMBOURNE
FINCHINGFIELD ROAD
Craigs
II
Lobby-entrance house, c.1600 extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered with
some weatherboarding, roof thatched. 4 bays aligned NE-SW, aspect SE, with
axial chimney stack in second bay from NE and external stack at SW end. Single-
storey extension at each end with shingled hipped roof, C20. Flat-roofed
extension to rear of SW end, C20. Single storey with attics. Door at front
of thatched gabled porch, french windows, 3 casement windows, all C20. C20
casement window in gabled dormer with fretted bargeboards, C17. Some framing
exposed internally. Jowled posts. Arched braces of shallow inclination from
posts to wallplates and tiebeams, inside studs. Face-halved and bladed scarfs
in wallplates. Axial beams plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, joists
of horizontal section. Clasped purlin roof. Central stack of 5cm. bricks.
An indenture in the possession of the owner records the sale of the house with 6
acres by Thomas Marsh to John Cragg in 1686, the origin of the present name.
RCHM 7.
Listing NGR: TL7151937856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114161
- 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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