Frostnails

FROSTNAILS, BLACKMORE END ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123351
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Frostnails
Statutory Address:
FROSTNAILS, BLACKMORE END ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123351
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Frostnails
Statutory Address 1:
FROSTNAILS, BLACKMORE END 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FROSTNAILS, BLACKMORE END 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 73818 30947

Details

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD BLACKMORE END ROAD (south-west side)

1/95 Frostnails

GV II

House. Late C16, altered in C17, C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, with some painted brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slate. 3-bay main range aligned NE-SW, extended to NE by one bay with end stack in brick end elevation. C17 one-bay extensions to NW and SE, forming a cruciform plan. Single-storey extensions of various dates and designs in each angle. 2 storeys. Scattered fenestration. C19 half-glazed door with 16 lights. The original range has jowled posts, close studding with curved tension braces trenched to the inside, chamfered binding beams with plain joists of horizontal section jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, face-halved and bladed scarfs in both wallplates, clasped purlin roof with curved wind-bracing. One tiebeam has been moved along. The SE extension has a chamfered axial beam with plain joists of vertical section. RCHM 54.

Listing NGR: TL7381830947

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
115609
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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