Woodleys Farmhouse
WOODLEYS FARMHOUSE, GAINSFORD END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122996
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Woodleys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOODLEYS FARMHOUSE, GAINSFORD END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122996
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Woodleys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODLEYS FARMHOUSE, GAINSFORD END
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:
- WOODLEYS FARMHOUSE, GAINSFORD END
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 72169 35033
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD GAINSFORD END 3/16 Woodleys Farmhouse II
House, C17, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. NE-SW, aspect SE, with axial chimney stack in middle bay. C17/18 single-storey extension to rear of NE bay. C18 extension to SW, single storey with attics, with external chimney stack on front wall, and single-storey extension to rear of it, extensively modernised. 2 storeys. 2 plain boarded doors, one tiled gabled porch, 2-window range of C20 casements. Some weatherbording on SW gable and rear extension. The interior has jowled posts, axial beams with lamb's tongue and bar stops, exposed joists of horizontal section (some renewed), some exposed framing, 2 hearths substantially original, the SW with an oven door but no oven, the NE of curved interior with the mantel beam renewed. RCHM 21.
Listing NGR: TL7216935033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114502
- 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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