Moorcot
MOORCOT, HENNY BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122874
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moorcot
- Statutory Address:
- MOORCOT, HENNY BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122874
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moorcot
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORCOT, HENNY BACK 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:
- MOORCOT, HENNY BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alphamstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87192 35694
Details
ALPHAMSTONE HENNY BACK LANE TL 83 NE (west side) 2/15 Moorcot II House. Late C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 4 bays facing SE, with axial chimney stack near middle and C19/20 external stack at right end. C20 conservatory at left end. One storey with attics. 3 C20 casements, and one more in swept dormer, door to left of C20 thatched porch. Roof hipped at left end. The interior has jowled posts and heavy studding. All floors are supported on pegged clamps but probably original: longitudinal plain joists in both end bays; in middle room, chamfered axial beam with plain joists of horizontal section. Large wood-burning hearth, original. Clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces. This house is medieval in plan, but has post-medieval constructional features. There is an unusual straining beam of U-form connecting the wallplates near the SW end, an early repair.
Listing NGR: TL8719235694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114804
- 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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