Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122994
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122994
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toppesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 73934 37477
Details
TL 7337 TOPPESFIELD CHURCH LANE, North Side 6/10 Church Farmhouse GV II
Guildhall/church house, c.1500, altered in C16 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. NE- SW, aspect SE. Late C16 axial chimney stack one bay from NE end and C18 internal chimney stack at SW end. Rear stair tower with catslide roof behind main stack, and single-storey extensions with lean-to roofs to each side of it. 2 storeys. Jettied on front elevation, with 2 plain brackets exposed, underbuilt in the SW bay. Plain boarded door, 2 C19 casement windows and one single-hung sash window of 12 lights. First floor, 4 C19 casement windows. The exterior has C18/19 pargetting in panels with moulded borders. The interior has one hollow-moulded doorway with 4-centred head in partition wall of SW bay, a double-ogee moulded axial beam with carved foliate stops, jowled posts, grooves for sliding shutters on both floors, and an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the rear wallplate. The upper floor was originally one undivided space of 4 bays, for public purposes. No access to roof. The pegging of the rear wall indicates that there was a rear wing originally, which accounts for the narrow span, only approx. 5 metres. The position, immediately opposite the church, confirms its original function as a public building. A guild of St. Margaret is recorded in the 1524 Lay Subsidy (PRO, E.179/108/163 m. 6 d). RCHM 8.
Listing NGR: TL7393437477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114496
- 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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