Martin's Nest
MARTIN'S NEST, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123321
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Martin's Nest
- Statutory Address:
- MARTIN'S NEST, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123321
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Martin's Nest
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARTIN'S NEST, BRAINTREE ROAD
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:
- MARTIN'S NEST, BRAINTREE ROAD
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:
- TL7211729926
Details
TL 7229
6/129
WETHERSFIELD
BRAINTREE ROAD
(east side)
Martin's Nest
GV
II
House. C16. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay
tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with axial stack one bay from left end. One storey
with attics. 3 C20 casements, one more in gabled dormer. C20 door. The
interior has jowled posts, longitudinal plain joists of horizontal section in
both end bays. The floor in the 2 middle bays appears to be inserted, with a
transverse beam and longitudinal joists of horizontal section supported on
pegged clamps. Original straight stair of solid treads, with modern treads and
risers added. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in front wallplate, other splinted.
C16 rebated floorboards. Large wood-burning hearth, reduced for C19 coal grate.
On the upper floor one tiebeam has been removed at an early date between the
right end bay and the middle part, and another inserted which arches up to leave
the inserted doorway unobstructed, a rare and ingenious construction. In this
doorway, a C17 ledged door of 3 plain boards with original wooden handgrip. No
access to roof structure. The accessible evidence suggests that this house was
built with the middle 2 bays open to the roof, with or without a timber-framed
chimney, and that in the early C17 a floor was inserted, the new doorway made,
and the present brick stack built.
Listing NGR: TL7211729926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115642
- 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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