Secretaries Farmhouse
SECRETARIES FARMHOUSE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122849
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Secretaries Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SECRETARIES FARMHOUSE, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122849
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Secretaries Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SECRETARIES FARMHOUSE, WATER 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:
- SECRETARIES FARMHOUSE, WATER 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 90454 34050
Details
BURES HAMLET WATER LANE TL 9034 (east side) 5/51 (36/154) Secretaries Farmhouse (formerly 7.8.52 listed as "Secretaries") GV II Water Lane is wrongly shown on the O.S. map as Brook Street. House. C14 with major alterations of the C18, and C19 extensions. Timber framed, facade of red brick in Flemish bond, roughcast elsewhere, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Hall house, probably formerly aisled, facing S. One off-centre axial chimney stack of C16 origin, rebuilt in C18. External chimney stacks at each end, C18. Rear stair tower and closet wing, C18. Rear wings from each end, early C19. Single-storey lean-to extension beyond stair tower, mid C19. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C19 french windows in original C18 apertures with flat brick arches, central half-glazed door with marginal lights, early C19, in C18 doorcase with reeded pilasters and broken pediment, with geometrical tracery in fanlight. First floor, 2 pairs of C18 sashes of 12 lights, central Venetian window. Band at first floor level. Wooden modillioned eaves cornice returned round side walls. Hipped gablet roof. The ground floor comprises a large central entrance hall and rooms to each side; fully plastered. One asymmetrical transverse beam in entrance hall, one axial beam in right end, both boxed in. The roof of the hall is of crownpost construction, the crownposts missing, the rafters and collars heavily smoke-blackened. Some panels of wattle and daub in roof. The stair has C18 twisted balusters, wide handrail and dado of pine, with minor restoration. The house is shown in perspective in a finely drawn estate map of 1796 by John Kingsbury, in the possession of the owner. The front is shown as at present, except that pairs of sashes occupied the positions of the present french windows, as on the first floor, the fanlight had radial tracery, and there were additional small windows each side of the door whose positions may still be identified as late C18 alterations in the brick facade, removed when the present entrance hall was formed. There was no wing to the right, and the left rear wing was shown as of one storey.
Listing NGR: TL9045434050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114840
- 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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