Lee's Farmhouse
LEE'S FARMHOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123138
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lee's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LEE'S FARMHOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123138
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lee's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEE'S FARMHOUSE, COLCHESTER 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:
- LEE'S FARMHOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86340 22785
Details
TL 82 SE COGGESHALL COLCHESTER ROAD (south side)
6/80 Lee's Farmhouse
- II
House. Late C16, C17 and C18, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered with some brick cladding, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C17 main range of 2 bays aligned approximately N-S, with axial stack at S end. Late C16 crosswing of 3 bays to S, extending to E. 2 storeys. C18 wing to W of main range with stack in SE corner, one storey with attics, and C19 catslide extension to N. The W elevation of the main range has on the ground floor one early C19 sash of 12+12 lights, and on the first floor one C20 equivalent. C20 glazed door at front of C20 lean-to porch, weatherboarded and roofed with ornamental clay tiles, in SW angle. High arched collar exposed in gable of crosswing. Shaped sprockets below eaves of all 3 blocks. Trace of C18 zigzag patterned plaster on N wall of W wing, surrounded by modern plaster. C19 casement in lean-to dormer in catslide roof. C20 casements elsewhere. The main range has chamfered axial and transverse beams, unstopped, joists plastered to the soffits. The 2 back-to-back wood-burning hearths are much altered with modern brickwork. The central truss has principal rafters dovetailed directly to the wallplates, without a tiebeam. The crosswing has an underbuilt jetty at the E end, chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and the joists (where exposed) of horizontal section, also chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Clasped purlin roof. Corner cupboard of c.1800 in middle bay of ground floor, with elliptical arched head, dentilled cornice and profiled shelves. On the first floor the S wall has a C17 panelled dado, painted; C17 moulded 4-plank door to E of stack. The W wing has an C18/19 corner hearth; on the upper floor a plastered partition is pricked with the date 1786. RCHM (Feering) 7.
Listing NGR: TL8634022785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116112
- 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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