Ashen House
ASHEN HOUSE, DOCTORS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123038
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ashen House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHEN HOUSE, DOCTORS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123038
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ashen House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHEN HOUSE, DOCTORS 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:
- ASHEN HOUSE, DOCTORS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashen
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 74830 42805
Details
TL 74 SW ASHEN DOCTOR'S LANE, East Side 1/2 Ashen House 7.8.1952 II House, C16 or earlier, restyled in C18 with C19 additions. Timber framed and roughcast, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. L-plan, consisting of 3-bay main range, aspect SE, with internal chimney stack at SW end, and NE crosswing extending to rear with external stack on NE side. 2 storeys and attics. Half- glazed door in eared doorcase with moulded hood on brackets, C18, and 2 C20 bay windows. First floor, 4 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights, late C18. Hipped roof on crosswing, with dentilled eaves to SE and NE only. The interior has early C18 pine panelling and some late C16 oak panelling. The frame is almost entirely concealed by plaster and panelling, but one jowled post with chamfered arch-brace is visible. Butt-purlin roof with some re-used smoke- blackened timber. Moated site. RCHM 3.
Listing NGR: TL7483042805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114406
- 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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