Rivett's Farmhouse

RIVETT'S FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122714
Date first listed:
02-May-1953
List Entry Name:
Rivett's Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
RIVETT'S FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122714
Date first listed:
02-May-1953
List Entry Name:
Rivett's Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
RIVETT'S FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
RIVETT'S FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN ROAD

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 67375 36672

Details

TL 63 NE FINCHINGFIELD TINKERS GREEN ROAD (north side)

1/91 Rivett's Farmhouse 2.5.53

- II

House. C16, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. N-S, late C16, probably the crosswing of a hall house of which the remainder has been demolished. Entrance elevation to S. Stair tower with lean-to roof to right of rear bay, c.1600, and C18 extension following the same roof line in front of it. External stack on left side, rebuilt c.1900. Rear stack, and 2-bay extension beyond, c.1600, with C19 external stack at end. Single-storey lean-to extension in right rear angle, C19. Front range 2 storeys with attics, rear range of 2 storeys. One C20 casement on ground floor, first floor and attic floor. Half-glazed door with gabled porch, c1900. The interior of the front range has moulded transverse and axial beams, posts chamfered with lamb's tongue stops and jowls cut to a scroll profile, some exposed close studding, and original floorboards. The rear range has a chamfered beam, plain joists of deep section, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the left wallplate, plain jowls, and original floorboards. The stair tower has an original newel stair with newel-post of 16-sided section, with turned balusters below the top-rail. There is a moulded 4-plank door on the ground floor and a moulded 3-plank door on the first floor, both c.1600, and a small area of early C17 oak panelling. RCHM 35.

Listing NGR: TL6737536672

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Legacy System number:
115233
Legacy System:
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Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

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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.

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