Valley Farmhouse
VALLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122853
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122853
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALLEY 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:
- VALLEY 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 88054 36774
Details
LAMARSH TL 83 NE 2/59 Valley Farmhouse - II House. C15, with major alterations of c.1600. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing S, with late C16 axial chimney stack near middle. C17 2-bay service wing to left, with end chimney stack, and full-height lean-to extension beyond, with corrugated iron roof. 2 storeys and attics in main house, one storey and attic in service wing. Altered c.1600 to present 2 feature fables to front, with a short space between them mainly occupied by the chimney stack. Ground floor, 3 C20 casements, one early C19 sash of 9 lights and one of 12 lights. First floor, one C19 casement in gabled dormer of service wing, one C19 horizontally sliding sash window of 12 lights, one C20 casement. Attic gables, 2 C19 casements. 4 grouped octagonal shafts. Early C20 gabled porch. The interior has jowled posts, and heavy studding with curved bracing trenched outside. The original floor at the right end has a chamfered beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with unrefined soffit tenons. The inserted floor at the left end of the main house has a chamfered beam and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. In the rear wall at the right end an unglazed window is present below the wallplate, blocked, with one diamond mullion visible. The roof has been wholly rebuilt c.1600, the original wallplates severed by large frieze windows at back and front. The house has remained unusually unaltered since. RCHM 5.
Listing NGR: TL8805436774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114848
- 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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