Champions Farmhouse
CHAMPIONS FARMHOUSE, BARDFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122717
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Champions Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHAMPIONS FARMHOUSE, BARDFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122717
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Champions Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAMPIONS FARMHOUSE, BARDFIELD 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:
- CHAMPIONS FARMHOUSE, BARDFIELD 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 68499 31268
Details
TL 63 SE FINCHINGFIELD BARDFIELD ROAD (east side)
3/1 Champions Farmhouse
GV II
House. Late medieval, altered in C17 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall range facing N, with C18 external stack at right end, and 2-bay service crosswing at left end. C17 extension beyond, with C19 external stack at rear. C18 rear extension with axial stack, the whole forming a T-plan. 2 storeys. On each floor, one early C18 window of 3 lights and one of 2 lights, each with one wrought iron casement and rectangular leaded glazing, including early glass. C18 door with 6 fielded panels and 3 small lights, in moulded doorcase with pedimented hood on scrolled brackets. Plaster coving below eaves. Similar early C18 windows elsewhere - two 3-light windows in left return wall, and in right return wall one 2-light casement window and one of 2 fixed lights. The roof has been reconstructed in the C17 to form a continuous double-pitch, so that the crosswing does not appear as such externally. The interior has jowled posts, exposed close studding, and a cambered tiebeam in the crosswing, originally for a crownpost roof. The roof incorporates numerous re-used smoke-blackened rafters from the roof of the medieval hall, trenched for the collars of a crownpost construction. The parlour/solar end has been demolished; it is not clear whether the walls of the medieval hall are still present, raised in the C17, or whether the hall range was rebuilt at that time. This building is unusual in having undergone little change since the early C18; the windows, complete with spring catches, are of particular interest.
Listing NGR: TL6849931268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115145
- 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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