Former Barnes Farmhouse

The Fox And Raven, Barnes Mill Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6NL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141357
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:
Former Barnes Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
The Fox And Raven, Barnes Mill Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6NL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141357
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:
Former Barnes Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
The Fox And Raven, Barnes Mill Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6NL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
The Fox And Raven, Barnes Mill Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6NL

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

County:
Essex
District:
Chelmsford (District Authority)
Parish:
Chelmer
National Grid Reference:
TL 72477 06538

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 June 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 70 NW
7/50

BARNES MIIL ROAD
The Fox And Raven
Former Barnes Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Barnes Farmhouse, BARNES MIIL ROAD)

II
Late C16 house re-faced and styled in the Reign of William and Mary. Framed in timber, with stuccoed elevations. The west front elevation is parapeted and has a central bay set forward beneath a moulded pediment. A moulded cornice extends the full width at eaves level. Six pairs of vertically hung six-pane sashes symmetrically disposed on the frontage. The two windows in the central bay have mullions and marginal sashes of two panes. The roofs are complex, peg-tiled and hipped, on an E-plan. Three chimney stacks irregularly placed. The north door is of the early C16 with hollow chamfered fillets, four-centred head and strap hinges.

Listing NGR: TL7247706538

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
352473
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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