The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY, NORTH END ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122983
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, NORTH END ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122983
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RECTORY, NORTH END ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, NORTH END ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Little Yeldham
National Grid Reference:
TL 78090 39424

Details

TL 73 NE LITTLE YELDHAM NORTH END ROAD, North Side 4/14 The Old Rectory II

House, C16 and C19. Timber framed, mainly clad with red brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range aligned NW-SE with axial chimney stack at NW end. C16 SE crosswing with one internal chimney stack and one C19 external chimney stack at NW end. C19 NW crosswing with internal chimney stack at NW end, and single-storey lean-to extension beyond. C19 gabled porch and small lean-to extension at SE end. 2 storeys. SW elevation, one bay, 2 casement windows and one tripartite double-hung sash window on ground floor, all C19. First floor, 4 casement windows and one tripartite double-hung sash window, all C19. Imitation framing on gables. The chimney stack in the SE crosswing has grouped diagonal shafts, early C17, and the external stack has grouped diagonal shafts, C19. The interior of the SE crosswing has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched inside, one panel of exposed wattle and daub, joists of horizontal section, and clasped purlin roof with curved wind bracing. RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL7809039424

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
114472
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

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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