Scotneys Farmhouse
SCOTNEYS FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123021
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Scotneys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTNEYS FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123021
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Scotneys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCOTNEYS FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD 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.
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:
- SCOTNEYS FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Yeldham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7541437523
Details
TL 73 NE
4/72
GREAT YELDHAM
TOPPESFIELD ROAD
North Side
Scotneys Farmhouse
II
House, c.1500, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned NE-SW, aspect NW, with late C16 chimney
stack in middle bay. C19 single-storey extension to NE, with central chimney
stack. C20 single-storey extension with hipped roof to SW. 2 storeys. Door in
tiled gabled porch, 6 casement windows on ground floor, 3 on first floor, of
which 2 are in gabled half-dormers, all C20. The interior has jowled posts,
edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, plain joists of horizontal
section jointed to chamfered axial beams with unrefined soffit tenons. The roof
is of crownpost construction and mainly as built, with nearly all the original
rafters and collars, most of the collar purlin, and one plain crownpost. Walls
entirely plastered.
Listing NGR: TL7541437523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114460
- 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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