Jummar

JUMMAR, HOWE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122704
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Jummar
Statutory Address:
JUMMAR, HOWE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122704
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Jummar
Statutory Address 1:
JUMMAR, HOWE STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
JUMMAR, HOWE STREET

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Finchingfield
National Grid Reference:
TL 69913 34633

Details

TL 63 SE FINCHINGFIELD HOWE STREET (west side)

3/56 Jummar

GV II

House. Early C16 or earlier, altered in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing SE, with axial stack, c.1600, in right bay, and originally storeyed parlour/solar bay to left. Second hearth back to back with first, C17, and structure extended to right by 2 bays in C17 and early C19, forming 2 cottages, later combined. C20 single-storey extension to rear of right corner. One storey with attics. 4 C20 casements and 2 more in eyebrow dormers. Plain boarded door. Roof half-hipped at both ends. The interior of the original building has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the outside. The left (parlour/solar) bay has a complete unglazed window with 3 diamond mullions on the upper floor, and below it a shutter rebate and diamond mortices for another, replaced by a modern window. Similar evidence of the former hall window remains in the front wallplate. Original floor'of lodged longitudinal joists of horizontal section in left bay, inserted floor of thin joists on pegged clamps in the hall. Incomplete bread oven behind stack. Roof originally of collar-rafter construction, smoke- blackened in the hall, rebuilt as clasped purlin construction. In right bays face-halved and bladed scarf in rear wallplate, primary straight bracing, unjowled posts, chamfered axial beam with thin joists. Internal tiebeams severed or removed.

Listing NGR: TL6991334633

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
115198
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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