Withies Green Farmhouse
WITHIES GREEN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123852
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Withies Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WITHIES GREEN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123852
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Withies Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITHIES GREEN FARMHOUSE
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:
- WITHIES GREEN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cressing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79463 22732
Details
CRESSING TL 72 SE
1/32 Withies Green Farmhouse 16.4.84
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as Withie's Farm. House. Circa 1580, altered and extended in 1983. Timber framed, ground storey clad with red brick in stretcher bond, upper storey plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing S, comprising a short chimney bay, a long bay to each side of it, and a short cross-entry bay at the left end. Large extensions to left and rear, 1983. 2-storey porch rebuilt 1983. 2 storeys and attics. 2 C20 casements on ground floor, 4 on first floor, C20 door at front of porch. Central stack rebuilt above roof in C20. Jowled posts. Heavy studding with curved tension braces trenched to the inside. Full length underbuilt jetty to front. Chamfered transverse and axial beams, mainly with lamb's tongue stops, but with step stops immediately to left of stack. Chamfered joists of horizontal section mainly with lamb's tongue stops, some step stops. Studded partition between cross-entry and left long bay removed and later rebuilt. C20 brick nogging as decor. Wide wood-burning hearth facing left, rear jamb 0.33 metre wide with original cupboard recess, front jamb 0.23 metre wide. Smaller hearth back to back with it, both jambs 0.33 metre wide. Frame charred at left end, by fire c.1982 which destroyed another building to the left. Face-halved and bladed scarf in rear wallplate. Early C17 framed floor over upper storey, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of square section. Shutter groove near middle of rear wallplate, for unglazed window to ventilate open hearths, probably on site of original stair. Rebated hardwood floorboards in attic. Clasped purlin roof with rafters of vertical section and collars at half-bay intervals. Unusual decorative curved bracing in right gable, more typical of Midlands style of framing.
Listing NGR: TL7946322732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116358
- 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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