House Approximately 70 Metres South South East of Boydell's Farmhouse
HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BOYDELL'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123322
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- House Approximately 70 Metres South South East of Boydell's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BOYDELL'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123322
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- House Approximately 70 Metres South South East of Boydell's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BOYDELL'S FARMHOUSE, 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:
- HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BOYDELL'S FARMHOUSE, 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:
- TL 72169 29826
Details
TL 7229 WETHERSFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (east side)(Cherry Gardens)
6/131 House approx. 70 metres south-south-east of Boydell's Farmhouse
GV II
House. Early C16 or earlier, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing NW, with C17 stack in right bay, storeyed service bay to right, storeyed parlour/solar bay to left. C18 2-bay crosswing at left end, extending to rear, with C18 internal stack at the junction. C20 single-storey extension in rear angle, partly tiled, partly flat-roofed. C18 bakehouse to rear of right end, originally free-standing, now connected to the house. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 4 C20 casements. First floor, 3 more, including 2 in swept dormers. C20 door in front of tiled lean-to porch. One C18 wooden casement window in left return wall with rectangular leading and vertical saddle bars. Jowled posts, heavy studding with arched bracing trenched to the inside. Large wood-burning hearth of 0.23 metre brickwork facing left, with chamfered mantel beam and lamb's tongue stops. Smaller hearth back to back with it, blocked. Early C17 inserted floor in hall comprising chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section, and original rebated boards. Partition between hall and parlour removed. Original wattle and daub in rear wall. Diamond mortices and shutter grooves for unglazed windows at each end, on upper storey. One tiebeam severed, another missing. Roof difficult of access, but apparently of collar-rafter construction, smoke-blackened over hall. This building has been 3 cottages, and still has 3 stairs, although now one house. Bread oven at rear right corner of bakehouse, access blocked. RCHM 31.
Listing NGR: TL7216929826
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115644
- 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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