Rolls Farmhouse
ROLLS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147574
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rolls Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROLLS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147574
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rolls Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROLLS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM 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.
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:
- ROLLS FARMHOUSE, SPARROWS FARM 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 75892 14064
Details
TERLING SPARROWS FARM ROAD TL 71 SE (south side) 5/156 Rolls Farmhouse
GV II
House, now 2 houses. Early C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing NE, with 2 axial stacks. Rear wings at both ends, probably C19, and single-storey lean-to extension between, roofed with red clay 'Roman' tiles. 2 storeys with attics. 3-window range of C20 sashes. Half-glazed door with marginal lights in C20 gabled porch. 3 feature gables. 3 C19/C20 diagonal shafts on each stack. Right return wall bricked on ground floor only. The interior is mainly plastered, with beams boxed in. Chamfered axial beams above first floor, with lamb's tongue stops. Original floorboards at first floor and attic. On first floor, small section of original oak panelling, painted, and original oak panelled cupboard door. House to right not examined internally. The farm, with 50 acres, was let by Sir Thomas Mildmay from 1581 to 1617, when the freehold was sold to a London buyer (Essex Record Office, D/DRa T.63). The present house probably dates from then.
Listing NGR: TL7589214064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115504
- 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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