The Firs
THE FIRS, HARWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147889
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Firs
- Statutory Address:
- THE FIRS, HARWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147889
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Firs
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FIRS, HARWICH 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:
- THE FIRS, HARWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrabness
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17452 30632
Details
WRABNESS HARWICH ROAD TM 13 SE (south side) 1/115 The Firs
- II
House. Late medieval, extended in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with mixed red and blue clay pantiles. 2-bay hall facing W, with inserted stack of c.1600 in left bay against rear wall, service bay to left, and parlour/solar bay at right end. C19 single-storey extension to rear of right end, and C19 lean-to extension in left rear angle, both of red brick with slate roofs. One storey with attics. 3 C20 casements, and 4 more in segmental-roofed dormers. C20 door in front of gabled porch. Jowled posts, heavy studding. Internal tiebeams missing or severed. The left bay (originally an unstoreyed service bay) has an inserted floor of c.1600 comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section; wood-burning hearth reduced for C20 grate. In the hall the studding at the right end is exposed, with a clear series of scribed carpenter's assembly marks, and peg-holes for a fixed bench. Large wood-burning hearth of 330mm. brickwork. Floor comprising longitudinal chamfered joists of horizontal section with plain stops, formerly jointed into a transverse beam at the left end and lodged at the right end, but raised above their original position. Roof not inspected but reported to be rebuilt. The exterior was weatherboarded until 1973, the date inscribed in the plaster of the left gable.
Listing NGR: TM1745230632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120340
- 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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