Aylett's Farmhouse

AYLETT'S FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123205
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Aylett's Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
AYLETT'S FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123205
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Aylett's Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
AYLETT'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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
AYLETT'S FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
National Grid Reference:
TL 80312 28592

Details

TL 82 NW GREENSTEAD GREEN AND HALSTEAD RURAL 5/131 Aylett's Farmhouse

GV II

House. Circa 1600, altered in early C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing SE, with axial stack near right end, full-length catslide extension to rear, with C20 internal stack in the left flank. An early C19 wing extends forward at the right end, with an external stack at the gable end, and a partly rendered brick catslide extension to the left. 2 storeys. The front elevation of the original range has on the ground floor one C19 horizontal sash of 24 lights and one early C19 sash of 16 lights, and on the first floor one C19/20 casement and one C18 3-light casement with rectangular leading and an inserted C19 wooden casement. Flush 4-panel door, the upper panels glazed, in lean-to porch in S angle. The NE elevation has on the ground floor one C20 casement, and one mid-C19 sash of long vertical panes with marginal lights and handmade glass, and on the first floor 2 mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights and one of 4 lights, with handmade glass. Central 5-panel door, the top 3 panels glazed, with mid-C19 moulded flat canopy on scrolled brackets, and 2 stone steps. The main block is of good quality timber framing. The early C19 staircase has slender straight balusters, and a narrow handrail with spiral termination at the newel.

Listing NGR: TL8031228592

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
115970
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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