Brook Farmhouse
BROOK FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123361
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123361
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK 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:
- BROOK 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:
- TL7135430906
Details
TL 73 SW
1/125
21.12.67
WETHERSFIELD
BRAINTREE ROAD
(east side)
Brook Farmhouse
GV
II
House. C.1300, altered in C16 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay hall aligned NW-SE, with late C16 one-bay
extension at SE end. Mid-C16 3-bay crosswing at NW end, forming an L-plan,
extensively re-styled in C18, with internal stack at NE end and external stack
at SW end, C18. Hall range of one storey with attics, crosswing of 2 storeys
with attics. NW elevation, 5-window range of C18 sashes of 12 lights with some
crown glass. 3 C18/C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 8 lights in gabled
dormers. Central 6-panel door with shallow hood on profiled brackets. SW
elevation, 6 C20 casements, and 3 more in gabled dormers. The hall has a
cambered main tiebeam with vertical and horizontal spandrel struts and crownpost
with 4-way bracing of wide section, steeply angled. The crownpost has a heavily
moulded base and capital, consisting of a series of angle fillets, with a
complete absence of rolls, heavily smoke-blackened. NE side of hall well
restored in early C20. The crosswing formerly had a central stack, removed in
the C18.
Listing NGR: TL7135430906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115639
- 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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