Sawyer's Farmhouse
SAWYER'S FARMHOUSE, SAWYER'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123718
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Sawyer's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SAWYER'S FARMHOUSE, SAWYER'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123718
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Sawyer's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAWYER'S FARMHOUSE, SAWYER'S 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:
- SAWYER'S FARMHOUSE, SAWYER'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tolleshunt Major
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89435 12227
Details
TOLLESHUNT MAJOR SAWYER'S ROAD TL 81 SE (west side) 2/111 Sawyer's Farmhouse 16.1.81 - II
House. C18 and early C19, extended in C20. Timber framed and plastered, and painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Comprises an C18 timber framed house of 3 bays facing approx. N, with central stack, and a brick house of c.1840 to the E, also facing N, with central stack forming a lobby-entrance, and original porch. C20 2-storey extension to rear of brick house. First build of one storey with attics, second build of 2 storeys. N elevation, first build, 2 C20 sashes and one C20 casement, and 2 C20 sashes in lean-to dormers; gambrel roof. Second build, on ground floor 2 original sashes of 16 lights; on first floor 2 similar sashes and one original sash of 12 lights. 6-panel door at front of brick porch with flat roof. Main roof and roof of rear extension hipped. At rear of first build, 2 early C19 sashes of 5 + 10 lights. The interior of the first build has exposed framing, primary straight bracing, unjowled posts, unchamfered axial beam with plain joists of vertical section in left bay, C20 floor in right bay. Wood-burning hearth with brick arch supported by iron bar in left bay, other hearth rebuilt in C20. The second build retains all or most of the original internal features. In left ground floor room, folding internal shutters and reeded fire surround with concentric rings at corners. On first floor, 2 small cast iron grates, original. All internal doors original, including 2 which are half-glazed, with slender glazing bars. There are deeds from 1753 in Essex Record Office; Sawyer's Farm is first mentioned by name in 1811 (C/TS 21).
Listing NGR: TL8943512227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353215
- 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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