NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'S FARMHOUSE

NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123356
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD

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Date:: 2004-08-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123356
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-4 SIMM'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:: TL7121231002

Details

TL 73 SW and TL 7031-7131 1/108 and 5/108 21.12.67

WETHERSFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (west side) Nos 1-4 (consecutive) Simm's Farmhouse,(formerly listed as Sims and Nos 1-3 Sims Cottages)

GV II*

House, divided into 4 dwellings. C16 or earlier, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 3 bays aligned NE-SW with axial stack at NE end, and late C16 3-bay crosswing beyond, extending to NW. Single-storey lean-to extension in W angle. At the S corner this house meets another smaller house extending to the SE, comprising a 'Unit System' pair (No. 1, Sim's Cottage, item 1/109, q.v.). C19/C20 extension in the W angle between them, the whole forming a Z-plan. External stack at SW end, and C20 single-storey lean-to extension beyond. Main range of 2 storeys, crosswing of 2 storeys with attics. NE elevation (to Braintree Road), one C20 casement on ground floor, and on first floor late C17 'Ipswich' window with 2 wrought iron casements and rectangular leading. C20 door. Panel of late C17 pargetting in high relief, of conventional foliage and scrolls, much restored in C20. On NW of crosswing, projecting gable, the bressumer carved with spiral leaf design, carved pendants and hanging brackets, infilled with weatherboarding. Scattered fenestration on this elevation, with 3 C20 doors. The SE gable also projects, with a carved bressumer (much weathered), exposed close studding, high collar and clasped purlins. The remainder of this elevation is weatherboarded. 6 grouped round shafts, of which 4 are fluted, rebuilt at top. Sprockets below eaves. RCHM 24.

Listing NGR: TL7121231002

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Legacy System number:: 115622
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.