Valley Farmhouse
VALLEY FARMHOUSE, OAK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123308
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE, OAK HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123308
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE, OAK HILL
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:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE, OAK HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7289329807
Details
TL 7229
6/195
21.12.67
WETHERSFIELD
OAK HILL (west side)
Valley Farmhouse
GV
II*
House. Early C16, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed
with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing SE with axial stack in
right bay, and two 3-bay crosswings, each with an external stack at the side,
forming an Ii-plan. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 late C19 bays of sashes of 2-4-2
lights, one early C19 sash of 4 lights, French windows with marginal lights.
First floor, 4 late C19 sashes of 4 lights. Half-glazed door in latticed porch
with hipped slate roof, late C19. C19 bargeboards with moulded finials.
Crosswing roofs hipped at rear. 3 octagonal shafts on main stack. Jowled
posts, close studding. The hall range has a large-wood-burning hearth facing
left, leaving the original cross-entry unobstructed, an inserted floor
comprising moulded transverse and longitudinal beams with lamb's tongue stops
(partly boxed in), moulded joists of horizontal section, and moulded clamps, and
a clasped purlin roof. The left (parlour/solar) crosswing has short arched
braces to one binding beam, plain joists of unusually heavy horizontal section,
one cambered tiebeam with deep arched braces (the other tiebeam missing) and a
crownpost roof with axial bracing. The right (service) crosswing has an
original studded partition between the middle and rear bays, a half-height jowl
of unusual stepped design, and a similar crownpost roof. The upper front room
is lined with early C17 oak panelling with a C19 reproduction frieze. Original
rebated floorboards in both crosswings. This house has an unusual range of
original interior features, and others are likely to be present but concealed.
RCHM 39.
Listing NGR: TL7289329807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115707
- 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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