Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123263
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Snells
- Statutory Address:
- SNELLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123263
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Snells
- Statutory Address 1:
- SNELLS
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:
- SNELLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Henny
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88311 37477
Details
GREAT HENNY TL 83 NE 5/87 Snells
GV II
House, former farmhouse. C16 and earlier. Of 2 storeys and of timber framing and plaster. Roofs are of clay pegtiles. H-plan form with unjettied crosswings at north and south and one storey and attics C20 rear extension with pegtile roof and large gabled dormer. Front has large gabled dormer in unraised hall roof and very tall 'L' plan stack, off-centre on the ridgeline. Windows are very wide leaded light C20 casements but one blocked diamond mullioned window appears in the first floor wall. North elevation has exposed framing showing blocked windows, cranked braces and halved and bridled scarf joint. The crosswings have soffit tennoned floor joists and appear to be of the early C16. The hall is earlier, but with crown post roof with thin bracing probably C16. One bay of hall was floored as first built supported on a stretcher beam at first floor level and only one bay of the roof is soot blackened. The north crosswing was the solar/parlour end. RCHM 7.
Listing NGR: TL8831137477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115804
- 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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