Upper Farm Cottage
UPPER FARM COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164743
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER FARM COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164743
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER FARM COTTAGE
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:
- UPPER FARM COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashen
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 74667 41908
Details
TL 74 SW ASHEN 1/1 Upper Farm Cottage II
House, early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2 normal bays aligned NW-SE and short chimney bay to NW, with axial chimney stack. Single-storey lean-to extension to NW, connecting with porch to SW of chimney bay. Single-storey with attics. SW elevation, C20 door, 2 C20 casement windows and one small one, one C20 casement in swept dormer. Roof half-hipped at SE end. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, exposed plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. Large wood-burning hearth with aperture and door for bread over, but oven demolished. The original front door was to NE of the chimney stack, now blocked. RCHM 12.
Listing NGR: TL7466741908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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