The Old Parsonage
The Old Parsonage, The Pightle
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122709
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Parsonage
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Parsonage, The Pightle
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122709
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Parsonage
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Parsonage, The Pightle
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:
- The Old Parsonage, The Pightle
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 68662 32686
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TL 6832
7/73
FINCHINGFIELD
THE PIGHTLE (south side)
The Old Parsonage
(Formerly listed as Parsonage House)
2.5.53
GV
II
House. C15, altered in C16, C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Two-bay hall facing NW with late C16 axial stack in right bay, three-bay crosswing at left end with external stack on left return wall, and two-bay crosswing at right end. Parallel range at rear, C17. Service range to right, with thatched roof. Two storeys, three- window range of C20 casements. six-panel door with top panels glazed. Late C16 bargeboards on left crosswing carved with grotesque beasts. Grouped diagonal shafts. The right crosswing has a chamfered binding beam with step stops, heavy plain joists jointed to it with unrefined soffit tenons, an underbuilt jetty and diamond mortices for unglazed windows, C15.
The walls have been raised and the roof rebuilt on the line of the main range in the C17. The hall has a C16 inserted floor with chamfered axial and transverse beams, and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. The walls have been raised and the roof rebuilt in the C17. The left crosswing has a chamfered binding beam with step stops, and it retains the original crownpost roof with axial braces.
A notable feature is the stair at the rear of the hall, late C16, rising in two straight flights with an intermediate landing, moulded handrail, and eight chamfered posts with lamb's tongue stops and elaborate moulded square finials. Five doors of moulded planks on ledges, c.1600. RCHM 17.
Listing NGR: TL6866232686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115215
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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