Highams Farmhouse
HIGHAMS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141948
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Highams Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHAMS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141948
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Highams Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHAMS 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:
- HIGHAMS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aythorpe Roding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 59970 14984
Details
TL 51 SE AYTHORPE RODING
5/8 HIGHAMS FARMHOUSE
II
Early C17 with C19 extension. Timber-framed, plastered, roof tiled, with brick extension. L-plan, comprising 3-bay SE wing of a former hall house, with brick NW wing. Two storeys. Entrance front has central 2-storey porch of plastered brick in Tudor style, C19, with original external stack to SE. Garden elevation has bay of 3 sash windows at SW end and 2 sash windows on ground floor, 3 sash windows and one arched cast iron window on first floor, all early C19. Panelling with fluted frieze, circa 1600, which RCHM reported in a garden pavilion, installed in lower SW room. Roof rebuilt, re-using some smoke-blackened medieval rafters. Cast iron pump in wooden case against E corner. Moated site. RCHM 4.
Listing NGR: TL5997014984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352651
- 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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