The Limes
THE LIMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123928
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123928
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES
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 LIMES
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 53679 11141
Details
TL 51 SW MATCHING MATCHING GREEN 3/75 The Limes 20.2.67
GV II
House, early C18, extended in C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles, with stone copings on parapets and gables. Double pile plan, entrance elevation to SW, with central entrance/staircase hall and 2 internal chimney stacks at each end. Roof of M section, ridges aligned NW-SE with double gables. Extension to NW of rear range, with hipped roof, C19, and lean-to extension with slate roof in W angle, C19. Lean-to conservatory to SE. 2 storeys. SW elevation, central 6-panel door with upper 4 panels glazed in flat roofed porch with 2 wooden Doric columns on plinths, pilasters with recessed fronts, dentilled cornice, 4 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights, the upper sashes segmental at top, C18, under segmental arches of gauged brickwork. First floor, 5 similar windows, and one double-hung sash window of 9 lights in C19 extension. String courses above each line of windows, rendered, and parapet. NE (garden) elevation has original bay of 3 similar windows, but with straight heads, at each floor, and 2 more on first floor, other windows C19. Original staircase and original plain panelling throughout. C19 cast iron grates.
Listing NGR: TL5367911141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118181
- 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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