Terling Stores and Post Office

TERLING STORES AND POST OFFICE, CROW POND ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1147405
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Terling Stores and Post Office
Statutory Address:
TERLING STORES AND POST OFFICE, CROW POND ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1147405
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Terling Stores and Post Office
Statutory Address 1:
TERLING STORES AND POST OFFICE, CROW POND ROAD

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:
TERLING STORES AND POST OFFICE, CROW POND ROAD

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Terling
National Grid Reference:
TL 77327 14960

Details

TL 7714 TERLING CROW POND ROAD (north-west side)

11/124 Terling Stores and Post Office

GV II*

House. Late C14, altered in C16 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing SE and two 2-bay crosswings. C16 stack in right bay of hall, and external stack to left of left crosswing. Small extension to right side of right crosswing. C16 stair tower to rear of left bay of hall, and later extension to right of it. Crosswings of 2 storeys, hall of one storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 C20 splayed bays, one C19 splayed bay, 2 C20 fixed lights. First floor, 3 C20 casements and one more in gabled dormer. One C20 half-glazed door and one C19 plain door. The left crosswing is jettied to the front, with 2 plain brackets exposed, and on the left return, with 2 more plain brackets, and a plain corner post. The right crosswing is jettied, with one plain bracket exposed, and the right corner is jettied at eaves level, with one plain bracket. The interior is much concealed by modern features and plaster but the original frame appears to be mainly present, and of high quality where it is visible. Cambered tiebeam in hall with richly moulded arched braces meeting in the middle, and 2-way spandrel struts. Cross-quadrate crownpost with 4-way bracing and plain base, smoke-blackened. RCHM 12.

Listing NGR: TL7732714960

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Legacy System number:
115472
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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