Spinney Farmhouse
SPINNEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123937
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Spinney Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPINNEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123937
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Spinney Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINNEY 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:
- SPINNEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Laver
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51522 08996
Details
TL 515 090 HIGH LAVER Spinney Farmhouse 5/15 Spinney Farmhouse
II
Hall house, early C15, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned approx. NW-SE, aspect SW, with contemporary 2-bay crosswing at SE end. External chimney stack on NE end of crosswing, C18, and another on SW end, C19. C20 crosswing at NW end, with 2 chimney stacks in NW wall. Single storey lean-to extension with slate roof at NW side. Single storey lean-to extension with slate roof against NE wall of hall between the crossings. Crosswings of 2 storeys, hall single storey with attics. SW elevation, ground floor, C20 door in position of original front door, 3 C20 casement windows. First floor, 2 more, of which one is in a C20 gabled dormer. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts. Inserted floor in hall, late C16, consisting of transverse beam and longitudinal joists of vertical section, plain chamfered with concave-plus-bar stops, supported on clamps. Roof of hall rebuilt, re-using many smoke-blackened rafters with trenches for a crownpost roof. The SE crosswing is the sevice end, originally with a partition between 2 ground floor rooms, the partition now removed. The central post of its till side exhibits rebates for twin doors opening inwards, and mortices for 2 missing doorheads. The beam is plain chamfered with step stops. The joists are of horizontal section, originally unchamfered, but with C20 chamfers and stops copied from the (later) inserted floor of the hall. The roof is of crownpost construction, with arched braces to the central tiebeam. The central crownpost has 2 curved braces down to the tiebeam, and 2 arched braces to the collar-purlin.
Listing NGR: TL5152208996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118089
- 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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