PETCHES FARMHOUSE

PETCHES FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139047
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: PETCHES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: PETCHES FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139047
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: PETCHES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PETCHES FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE 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:: PETCHES FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Finchingfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 69770 31774

Details

TL 63 SE FINCHINGFIELD PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD (west side)

3/70 Petches Farmhouse 2.5.55

- II

House. Circa 1300 and late C15, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. A manor house of complex and unusual plan. (1) 4-bay 2-storey range, c.1300, aligned NE-SW, with early C17 internal stack near the middle (2) parallel staircase hall to SE, C17 and later (3) parallel 3- bay 2-storey wing to SE, late C15, with jetty to SIi, and early C17 external stack at side (4) 2-bay open hall, late C15, to SE of SW end. Single-storey lean-to extensions to SE and in E angle. The house now faces NE, but the jetty suggests that originally it faced SW. 2 storeys, and hall of one storey with attics. NE elevation, 3 C20 casements on ground floor, 5 on first floor, of which one is in a gabled dormer. C20 door. 4 twisted octagonal shafts on main stack, restored. The interior of the NW range has unjowled posts, bridging beams with chamfered fillets, splayed and undersquinted scarfs in one wallplate and the collar-purlin, and crownpost roof with braces of wide section up to the collar-purlin and down to the tiebeams, incomplete. This is a strange building, and it has been suggested that originally it formed a first-floor hall. The 3- bay range, of similar length, has chamfered beams, heavy joists of wide section jointed to them with unrefined soffit tenons, and a crownpost roof with thin axial braces only, some missing. The hall has a side-purlin roof with conspicuous arched wind-bracing; the central tiebeam and braces to it have been removed. There are 2 early ledged 3-plank doors, one on its original strap- hinges, and one upper room is lined with early C17 oak panelling. RCHM 8.

Listing NGR: TL6977031774

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 115212
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

Legal

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