Priory Farmhouse

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:
PRIORY FARMHOUSE, COLNE GREEN

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Official list entry

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.

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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:
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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