Edgar's Farmhouse
EDGAR'S FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122852
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Edgar's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EDGAR'S FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122852
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Edgar's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDGAR'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:
- EDGAR'S FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89478 35422
Details
LAMARSH TL 83 NE 2/57 Edgar's Farmhouse - II House. Circa 1500, extended c.1600 and in C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing SW with late C16 axial chimney stack in left bay, and storeyed service bay beyond. One-bay extension to right, c.1600, with end chimney stack. C20 extension at left end, and lean-to extension to rear of this end, with slate roof. One storey with attics. Plain boarded door at front of tiled gabled porch, C20, 3 C20 casement windows, and 2 more in eyebrow dormers. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding, the original floor of lodged plain joists in the service bay, and an inserted floor of the late C16 in the hall, with transverse and axial beams chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The upper part of the rear hall window survives, with 3 3 diamond mullions, now inside the rear extension. Main hearth lined with modern brick. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in rear wallplate. Collar-rafter roof, heavily sooted, with double collar for smoke vent over service end. Some evidence of a smoke bay before the brick chimney was built in late C16.
Listing NGR: TL8947835422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114846
- 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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