Sparrows Farmhouse
SPARROWS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123386
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sparrows Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPARROWS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123386
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sparrows Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPARROWS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM 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:
- SPARROWS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Terling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75397 14521
Details
TL 71 SE TERLING SPARROWS FARM ROAD (north side)
5/151 Sparrows Farmhouse
GV II
House. Early C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SW with central stack, forming a lobby-entrance. 2-bay rear wing at right end. C19 and C20 extensions in N angle. C20 extension to left of main range. 2 storeys with attics. Ground floor, 3 C20 sashes. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 12 and 16 lights respectively, with crown glass, and 2 C20 sashes. Attic, one C20 sash. Late C16 door with ovolo-moulded and riveted grid on outside, possibly introduced, in original 2-storey porch. On main stack, 3 richly ornamented round shafts, original, and one plain octagonal shaft. Jowled posts. Ovolo-moulded axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops. On first floor, original fireplace facing to left with moulded plaster jambs and depressed arch, and plain Victorian cast iron grate. In equivalent hearth facing to right, ornate Victorian cast iron grate. This became a freehold farm of 80 acres in 1611, and the present house probably dates from then. It became copyhold of the manor of Terling Hall in 1703, and was bought by John Strutt in 1761 (Essex Record Office, D/DRa T.73). RCHM 27.
Listing NGR: TL7539714521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115499
- 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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