Blenheim House
BLENHEIM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123340
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Blenheim House
- Statutory Address:
- BLENHEIM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123340
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Blenheim House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLENHEIM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- BLENHEIM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- TL7127731334
Details
TL 7031-7131
5/176
WETHERSFIELD
HIGH STREET
(north side)
Blenheim House
GV
II
House. Late C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed
imitation framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SE, with
axial stack at left end and rear stack near right end. Rear wing behind right
end, forming an L-plan, and C20 extension in left rear angle. C20 single-storey
lean-to extension at right end. One storey with attics. One C20 splayed bay,
one C20 casement, and 2 more in lean-to dormers, all with diamond leading. C20
door. Traces of old patterned plaster in panels. Imitation framing exposed at
right return. Chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. Chamfered mantel beam
with lamb's-tongue-plus-bar stops, large wood-burning hearth. Interrupted
tiebeam construction in internal frame for original first floor doorway, now
blocked.
Listing NGR: TL7127731334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115688
- 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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