Essex House
ESSEX HOUSE, THE ENDWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165152
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Essex House
- Statutory Address:
- ESSEX HOUSE, THE ENDWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165152
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Essex House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESSEX HOUSE, THE ENDWAY
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:
- ESSEX HOUSE, THE ENDWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Easton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 60657 25444
Details
1. GREAT EASTON THE ENDWAY (South Side) Essex House
TL 62 NW: 4/102 20.2.67
GV II
2. House, mid-C16, timber framed and plastered of 2 storeys with a gabled peg tile roof and gabled 2 storey extension on rear. A 'long-wall-jetty' house with externally exposed timber frame, with solar and 1 large chamber on first floor over service rooms, cross-passage, fire bay, hall and parlour. The front has C20 metal casements with leaded lights, on the ground floor is one canted bay to the hall and a 'V' shaped bay to the parlour, both with coved soffits. Later stack in fire bay, rectangular above roof line and just forward of the ridge. Rear has hipped open porch on NE end and one gabled roof dormer. Timber frame and bracing is remarkably complete, although restored. Interior reveals inglenook fireplace chamfered and arch braced structure and remnants of crown post roof. Halved and bladed scarf joints. (RCHM 12).
Listing NGR: TL6065725444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122216
- 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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