Garretts
GARRETTS, GARRETTS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1147765
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Garretts
- Statutory Address:
- GARRETTS, GARRETTS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1147765
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Garretts
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARRETTS, GARRETTS LANE
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:
- GARRETTS, GARRETTS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shalford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 71770 27240
Details
TL 72 NW SHALFORD GARRETTS LANE
3/59 Garretts
21.12.67
- II*
House. C.1600, restored in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with axial stack in second bay from left end, forming a lobby-entrance. C20 single-storey extensions at left end and to rear of left end. 2 storeys and attics. 3-window range of C18 3-light casements (some introduced or reproduction). C20 plain boarded door in C20 gabled porch. 4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases, rebuilt at top. The interior has jowled posts, exposed studding with straight braces trenched to the inside, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section. On ground floor, 2 large wood-burning hearths, the mantel beams chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. On first floor, 2 original hearths with depressed arches of plastered brick, one chamfered, the other moulded. Original framed stair to rear of stack, with splat balusters at attic level. This house contains an exceptional range of interior doors of various types, some original, others introduced but correct for period, with original door furniture. All the windows are accurately restored, in some cases with genuine windows of the correct period introduced from elsewhere. Butt-purlin roof with straight wind-braces. RCHM 24.
Listing NGR: TL7177027240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115578
- 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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