Ranks Green Farm
RANKS GREEN FARM, RANKS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146817
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ranks Green Farm
- Statutory Address:
- RANKS GREEN FARM, RANKS GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146817
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ranks Green Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- RANKS GREEN FARM, RANKS GREEN
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:
- RANKS GREEN FARM, RANKS GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fairstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75044 17901
Details
TL 71 NE
2/23
FAIRSTEAD
RANK'S GREEN (north side)
Rank's Green Farm
(Formerly listed as Rank's Green Farmhouse)
II
House. Early C18, altered in C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing S, with approximately axial stack in
second bay from right, and early C19 stack in left end wall. Original
full-length lean-to at rear, forming a house comparable with the 'saltbox
houses' of New England. Large C20 gabled porch at right end. 2 storeys with
attics. 3-window range of C20 casements. 4-panel door in simple doorcase with
dentilled hood on scrolled brackets. Roof half-hipped. Pegged hardwood frame.
Chamfered axial beams with plain joists of vertical section. Clasped purlin
roof with ridge, without wind bracing. Large wood-burning hearth facing right,
the mantel bead chamfered with tomb's tongue stops. Wood-burning hearth facing
left, reduced for C19 grate. On first floor, small C18 wrought iron grate
facing left, a rare survival. Stair to rear of stack, with turned hardwood
posts and stick balusters.
Listing NGR: TL7504417901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115376
- 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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