NUMBER 1 (SPRINGWATERS ) AND NUMBER 2 (TITHINGS)

SPRINGWATERS, 1, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123858
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 1 (SPRINGWATERS ) AND NUMBER 2 (TITHINGS)
Statutory Address:: SPRINGWATERS, 1, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123858
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 1 (SPRINGWATERS ) AND NUMBER 2 (TITHINGS)
Statutory Address 1:: SPRINGWATERS, 1, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: TITHINGS, 2, CHURCH 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:: SPRINGWATERS, 1, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:: TITHINGS, 2, CHURCH ROAD

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:: TL7937920476

Details

TL 72 SE 1/48

CRESSING CHURCH ROAD (east side) No. 1 (Springwaters) and No. 2 (Tithings)

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House, now 2 cottages. Circa 1500, altered and extended at several periods. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles and some slate. 2-bay hall facing E with late C16 stack in right bay against front wall. Parlour/solar bay to left, and C17 single-storey wing of 3 bays to rear of it, raised to 2 storeys with flat roof in C20, and C20 flat-roofed single-storey extension beyond. C17 one-bay extension to right, replacing former service bay, and C18 bay beyond with internal stack at end. C20 single-storey rear extensions. One storey with attics. The original house is divided through the stack, No.1 to the left, No. 2 to the right. No. 1 has a 2-window range of C20 casements and a C20 door in a lean-to porch. The front pitch of this roof has been raised. No. 2 has a 2-window range of C20 diamond-leaded casements, and a hipped porch with a similar window and C20 door. This roof has been rebuilt on an axis parallel to that of the original roof, but in front of it. No. 1 has jowled posts, heavy studding, and diamond mortices and a shutter groove for an unglazed window in the left return. The left bay has plain joists of horizontal section arranged longitudinally, and a blocked stair trap in the left rear corner. The left bay of the former open hall has a mid-C16 inserted floor comprising a transverse beam against the stack, chamfered on one side only with step stops, and chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops arranged longitudinally. The mantel beam has a cranked upper surface; the lower edge is chamfered and mitred as for a timber-framed chimney, later rebuilt in brick. The wide wood-burning hearth has a seat in the right side, and is much repaired with C20 brickwork. The rear rafters of this bay are smoke-blackened, indicating use as an open hall before the floor was inserted. The original roof was of crownpost form, but in No. 1 this is visible only at the trusses; the collar-purlin and braces to it are missing. In No. 2 a short section of collar-purlin remains in situ, with a cambered tiebeam and simple crownpost. The wide wood-burning hearth in No. 2 has a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops, later in date than that of No. 1. The left bay has a C17 floor of plain joists of vertical section. In the right bay many of the joists are re-used. (M.C. Wadhams, Essex Archaeology and History 2, 1979, 80).

Listing NGR: TL7937920476

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Sources

Books and journals
Wadhams, M C, 'Essex Archaeology and History' in Essex Archaeology and History, , Vol. 2, (1979), 80

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.