Valiant's Farmhouse
VALIANT'S FARMHOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Valiant's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VALIANT'S FARMHOUSE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Valiant's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALIANT'S FARMHOUSE
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:
- VALIANT'S FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pebmarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86318 32936
Details
PEBMARSH TL 83 SE 4/89 Valiant's Farmhouse - II House. C15, altered in C16. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. One bay and a part of the second bay of a hall formerly of 2 bays, facing NW, with C16 external stack at rear. 2-bay crosswing to left, jettied to the front, with C16 external stack at rear end. Late C16 stair tower at rear, between these stacks C20 single-storey extensions with flat roofs at right and right rear. 2 storeys. 2 C20 casements on ground floor and one on first floor, C20 door. 2 plain brackets below jetty. Roof half-hipped at right end. External chimney stacks plastered. Jowled posts and heavy studding, exposed internally. The crosswing has a chamfered binding beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with unrefined soffit tenons. Chamfered central crownpost with thin axial braces. Shutter grooves for unglazed windows above and below the jetty. Blocked unglazed window in upper left wall, and another below it converted to a C20 window, both with shutter grooves. The surviving part of the hall has an inserted floor, late C16; with all joists of horizontal section chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, supportedon pegged clamps. The hearth of the crosswing has been faced with C20 brick at the sides; the hearth of the hall has been divided into 2 and plastered internally. The stair tower retains the original newel stair, with round newel post and solid treads, a rare survival. (H. Forrester, The Timber Framed Houses of Essex, 1959, 66). RCHM 18.
Listing NGR: TL8631832936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114887
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, The Timber-framed Houses of Essex, (1959), 66
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 27-Jun-2026 at 01:10:31.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.