Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE, COLNE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123216
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, COLNE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123216
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, COLNE GREEN
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, COLNE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earls Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85512 28982
Details
TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE COLNE GREEN (north side)
8/52 Priory Farmhouse
GV II
House. Mid-C16, mid-C17 and early C19, altered in C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Mid-C16 middle range facing S, mid-C17 wing at right end extending forwards, early C19 wing at left end extending forwards, forming a half-H plan. Axial stack at right end of middle range, external stack to rear of left wing. Lean-to conservatory to left of Left wing, single-storey extension with hipped roof to rear of right-wing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one C20 casement and one C18 sash of 12 lights. First floor, 2 C20 casements. No windows at front of left wing. 6-panel door, the upper 4 panels glazed, with simple flat canopy. Recessed panel with inscribed date 1835 in right stack. Stop-chamfered beams, moulded joists with vine-leaf carving. Original fireplaces. Roofs of main range rebuilt in C19. The name is misleading, for this was a copyhold tenement of the Earldom manor, the main range probably built for Joan, second wife of Thomas Rolte in 1540.
Listing NGR: TL8551228982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115900
- 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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