MILLINGTON HOUSE

MILLINGTON HOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147589
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: MILLINGTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MILLINGTON HOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147589
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: MILLINGTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MILLINGTON HOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILLINGTON HOUSE, COLCHESTER ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Tendring (District Authority)
Parish:: Thorpe-le-Soken
National Grid Reference:: TM1698023124

Details

TM 12 SE 5/77

THORPE-LE-SOKEN COLCHESTER ROAD (north side) Millington House

GV II

House. Early C17, altered in C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 4 bays facing E, with axial stack in left bay, and 4-bay crosswing to left, with external stack to rear. External stack at right end of main range, now enclosed by C20 extension beyond, projecting to rear. 2 storeys. 6-window range of C20 casements, and one original window on first floor with 2 ovolo mullions and modern glazing. C20 door, and garage doors in right extension. The crosswing is jettied to the front, with exposed joists of vertical section and 2 C20 brackets. Jowled posts, straight and curved primary bracing. In the main range the 2 bays at the right end were originally divided axially into 2 service rooms (partition now removed), the axial beam chamfered at the front only, without stops, with plain joists of vertical section. The next bay has 2 chamfered longitudinal beams with plain stops, and plain joists of vertical section. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right, of 330 mm brickwork, in short chimney bay. The crosswing is divided originally into 2 ground-floor rooms, with original wattle and daub infill inscribed with a diamond pattern. The binding beams are chamfered without stops, with plain joists of vertical section. On the first floor there was originally a similar partition, now removed. The tiebeams are chamfered with broach stops, and the plain joists of vertical section frame an original ceiling. Shutter groove in front tiebeam. Hearth on first floor with depressed arch and chamfered jambs, originally plastered, now stripped. Composite roof over main range, mainly of clasped purlin construction, with butt-purlin section in front pitch. RCHM 4. An old photograph showing it as 3 tenements appears in E.A. Wood, A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890, 1975.

Listing NGR: TM1698023124

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 120306
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wood, E A , A History of Thorpe le Soken to the Year 1890, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.