Houchin's Farmhouse
HOUCHIN'S FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123187
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Houchin's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOUCHIN'S FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123187
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Houchin's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUCHIN'S FARMHOUSE
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:
- HOUCHIN'S FARMHOUSE
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 87084 23548
Details
TL 82 SE COGGESHALL
6/4 Houchin's Farmhouse 2.5.53
- II*
House. Circa 1590, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 5 bays aligned E-W, with central stack; 3 storeys and cellar. 3-bay service range to N of W end with one axial stack; one storey and attic. All windows are C20 metal casements, including 5 in hipped dormers in service range. Double half-glazed doors to S. The S and W elevations of the main range are jettied at first and second floors. The roof of the main range has a gablet hip at the W end, a gable at the E end, which is tile-hung; stack rebuilt above roof level in C20, with 7 octagonal shafts. The service range has a half-hip to the N. Carved grotesque figures below both jetties at the SW corner; moulded fascias to all jetties. Cement-rendered plinth approximately one metre high. Shaped sprockets below eaves. Jowled posts. Curved tension braces trenched inside heavy studding, nailed at the crossings. In both ranges, chamfered binding and bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists plastered to the soffits, original related floorboards. Some posts in both ranges have ovolo-moulded jowls or ledges. One transverse beam in the service range is re-used from a jettied building. The main range has a clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. Blocked original windows with unrefined ovolo-moulded jambs and mullions on the second floor; others in the attic complete with diamond saddle bars. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates of both ranges. The W ground-floor room of the main range has a wide wood-burning hearth with ovolo-moulded jambs and depressed arch, stripped of plaster. The E ground-floor room is fully lined with original or early C17 oak panelling; C20 grate. Early C19 quarter-turn stair with pine handrail and stick balusters. The frame is illustrated and described in C.A. Hewett, The Development of Carpentry, 1200-1700, an Essex study, 1969, 144, 154, 200, 202-3, 207, 210. RCHM (Feering) 2.
Listing NGR: TL8708423548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116035
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969), 210
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969), 154
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969), 200
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969), 202-3
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969), 144
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969), 207
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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