Lodge Farmhouse
LODGE FARMHOUSE, GOAT HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1141329
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE, GOAT HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1141329
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE, GOAT HALL LANE
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:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE, GOAT HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 69368 02736
Details
1. 5213 GOAT HALL LANE Lodge Farmhouse TL 60 SE 8/157
II*
2. Circa 1280-circa 1330 house. Timber framed and plastered except south wall which is clad with black weather-boards. Of 2-storeys and 4 bays with front (west) elevation re-styled about 1900. Central front door with casements either side. Range of 3 matching casements on the lst storey. Roof steeply pitched and ridged with hipped southern and gabletted northern ends. Two red brick chimney stacks against the rear (east) wall, from which a single storeyed extension projects with gabled and tiled roof. Containing the complete frame of the 4 bay medieval house with storeyed end-bays retaining their lodged floors of exceptionally big joists. The 2 central bays were the open hall and its tall diagonally mullioned side windows are visible on the existing 1st floor. The storey-posts have jowls of the earliest type (of Priory Place, Little Dunmow) and the arch-braces of the open frame spanning the hall were evidently of great size and steeply pitched arcature. The top-plates are prominently scarfed with the stop-splayed and tabled joint having under-squinted butts and lateral wedges that is known only between the dates cited. The roof is entirely original and has 2 crown-posts that are boldly down-braced to their tie-beams and a gabletted smoke vent survives at the north end. The side walls of the hall are remarkable in that the cross-entry doorways to east and west are framed into the side-girts and storey-posts whilst the remaining bay of the hall is similarly 'arcaded' beneath the girt - on both sides, the bay lengths are unusual in that from south to north they measure approximately 15 ft. Service, 6 ft cross-entry, 9 ft. Hall and 15 ft. Solar. This house is a remarkable survival in an urban area and in an almost complete and unaltered state.
Listing NGR: TL6936802736
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352504
- 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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