Readings Farmhouse
READINGS FARMHOUSE, BAKER'S FARM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123350
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Readings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- READINGS FARMHOUSE, BAKER'S FARM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123350
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Readings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- READINGS FARMHOUSE, BAKER'S FARM LANE
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:
- READINGS FARMHOUSE, BAKER'S FARM LANE
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 74946 31366
Details
TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD BAKER'S FARM LANE (east side)
1/93 Readings Farmhouse 17.3.82 (formerly listed under Blackmore End)
- II
House. C.1600, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with internal stack in second bay from left end against rear wall. Extended to left by one bay in C18/C19, with C19 and C20 extensions to rear of it. One storey with attics. 3 horizontally sliding sashes of 24 lights on ground floor, and 2 of 18 lights in gabled dormers, all C20 accurate reproductions of C19 originals. C20 door. Original sprockets below eaves at front and back. The interior has jowled posts, curved tension braces trenched inside studs, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section, original floorboards. All floors raised in 1983. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, clasped purlin roof. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right.
Listing NGR: TL7494631366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115607
- 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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