Bits and Pieces

BITS AND PIECES, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122727
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Bits and Pieces
Statutory Address:
BITS AND PIECES, CHURCH HILL
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Date:
2002-05-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122727
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Bits and Pieces
Statutory Address 1:
BITS AND PIECES, CHURCH HILL

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:
BITS AND PIECES, CHURCH HILL

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:
TL6858132838

Details

TL 6832
7/19

FINCHINGFIELD
CHURCH HILL
(north side)
Bits and Pieces

GV
II

House, now a shop. C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered,
roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SE, with central stack
forming a lobby-entrance. C18/C19 2-storey extension to rear of right end. 2
storeys. Ground floor, one C20 casement, C19 shopfront. First floor, 2 C20
casements. 6-panel door in simple doorcase with shallow hood. 4-panel door
with upper panels glazed, with shallow hood. Sun firemark no. 425573 attached
to wall above main door. Chamfered axial beams, with lamb's tongue stops in
left bay only. Large wood-burning hearth facing right; reduced for coal fire.
Listed for Group Value.

Listing NGR: TL6858132838

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
115162
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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