Fishpits
FISHPITS, FISHPITS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122844
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fishpits
- Statutory Address:
- FISHPITS, FISHPITS LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04719/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122844
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fishpits
- Statutory Address 1:
- FISHPITS, FISHPITS LANE
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:
- FISHPITS, FISHPITS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bures Hamlet
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87519 33262
Details
BURES HAMLET FISHPITS LANE TL 83 SE (west side) 4/40 Fishpits - II House. C17. Painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SE, with axial chimney stack forming lobby-entrance. Timber framed C17 wing to rear right, raised in C18. C20 wing to rear left, forming a half-H plan, and single-storey lean-to between the wings, C20. C18 external oven at right end of main range. 2 storeys. 3 C20 sashes of 20 lights on ground floor, 3 late C18 sashes of 16 lights on first floor. C20 door at front of gabled porch. Both ends of roof half-hipped. Interior partitions timber-framed, with primary straight bracing. In right bay, chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. In middle room, transverse beam and plain joists of horizontal section. In left bay, plain beam, originally plastered over, now exposed, and joists plastered to the soffits. The floor of the bread oven has been removed for a central heating boiler, but the walls and arched roof survive.
Listing NGR: TL8751933262
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114829
- 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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