HOLE FARMHOUSE

HOLE FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123803
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: HOLE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: HOLE FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123803
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: HOLE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HOLE FARMHOUSE, LONDON 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:: HOLE FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Kelvedon
National Grid Reference:: TL 84840 17216

Details

KELVEDON LONDON ROAD TL 81 NW (south-west side)

5/251 Hole Farmhouse

II* House. C15, extended in C19. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing NW, with late C16 stack in right bay against rear wall; service bay to right, with C19 internal stack against rear wall; parlour/solar bay to left. C19 lean-to extension of painted brick with slate roof at left end, with internal stack at rear, and C19 gabled bread oven beyond. One storey with attics. One C19 tripartite sash of 4-12-4 lights, one early C19 sash of 16 lights, 2 small casements, and 2 C19 casements in gabled dormers. Plain boarded door with small light. At each end a collar and collar-purlin are visible through the render. Jowled posts, arched braces to cambered central tiebeam, heavy studding, much original wattle and daub infill, one panel exposed behind glass. The left bay has heavy plain joists of horizontal section, arranged longitudinally and raised, with a blocked stair trap in the front right corner. The hall has at the left end paired display braces and bench fixings; an inserted floor of c.1560 with a chamfered axial beam with stops of step form with the corners cut back, joists plastered to the soffits, supported on deep pegged clamps; a wide wood-burning hearth with chamfered mantel beam with plain stops, reduced for a C20 grate, the back cut away and the flue rebuilt above. The present wide door is in the same position as the original front door, and a window occupies the position of the original rear door. Twin plain service doorways, axial partition removed. Original crownpost roof with axial braces almost complete, soot-encrusted over hall, painted over. The original frame survives in exceptionally unaltered condition. RCHM 56.

Listing NGR: TL8484017216

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

Legacy System number:: 116548
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.