Stowes and Mildmay
MILDMAY, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122728
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Stowes and Mildmay
- Statutory Address:
- MILDMAY, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122728
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stowes and Mildmay
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILDMAY, CHURCH HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- STOWES, 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.
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:
- MILDMAY, CHURCH HILL
- Statutory Address:
- STOWES, 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:
- TL6853032796
Details
TL 6832
7/23
21.12.67
FINCHINGFIELD
CHURCH HILL
(south side)
Stowes and Mildmay,
(formerly listed as 'Mildmay'and'The Museum under The Green)
GV
II
House. Late medieval, much altered in C17 and C18. Timber framed, plastered,
roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing N, with late
C16 axial stack in middle bay. 2-bay crosswing at right end, and C18 one-bay
extension beyond, with external stack at rear. Parallel range to rear of main
range and crosswing, C17/C18. 2 storeys, and cellar below right bay only.
Ground floor, one C20 splayed bay and 3 C20 casements. First floor, 5 early C19
sashes of 16 lights, including one blanked off and painted. One 4-panel door
with upper panels glazed in fluted doorcase with shallow hood, one 4-panel door
in moulded doorcase with shallow hood. Left end of roof hipped, right end half-
hipped. Grouped diagonal shafts, rebuilt at top. An entrance hall has been cut
through the main stack in the C19, the flues on each side arching together
above. Stowes comprises the left end of the house, Mildmay the right end. In
Stowes interior plaster conceals most of the frame, but there is evidence that
this was the service end of the medieval house. Some of the frame has been
stripped in Mildmay, revealing an unglazed window with one diamond mullion in
the right wall of the crosswing, now enclosed by the C18 extension. The hall
has an inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops. The
floor of the right crosswing has been raised approx. 0.5 metres, and the walls
of this and the hall have been raised in the C17/C18 to form a continuous range
and continuous roof, revealing no indication externally of the original plan.
RCHM 18.
Listing NGR: TL6853032796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115166
- 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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