The Homestead
THE HOMESTEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123922
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Homestead
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOMESTEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123922
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Homestead
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HOMESTEAD
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:
- THE HOMESTEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 50733 10792
Details
TL 51 SW MATCHING HOUSHAM TYE 3/84 The Homestead
GV II
House, early C17. Timber framed, plastered with exposed framing at front of first floor only, roofed with C20 red tiles. 4 bays aligned approximately E-W, axial chimney stack in second bay from W. External chimney stack at E gable. Lean-to extension at W end. 2 storeys. 3 window range of C20 casements, C20 tiled gabled porch. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled wallposts, straight tiebeams, curved bracing trenched inside studs in most of house, straight bracing trenched inside studs in W bay. Chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. Clasped purlin roof. There is a straight joint between the W bay and the remainder of the house. Both parts are of the early C17, but the W bay is slightly later in date than the rest. The Walker map of 1609 (Essex Record Office D/DU 25) shows a single storey house on this site. The present house is built in 2 storeys from the outset and is not an adaptation of the 1609 house, although the chimney stack could be the same. RCHM 12.
Listing NGR: TL5073310792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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