Parsonage House
PARSONAGE HOUSE, HAVERHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165334
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parsonage House
- Statutory Address:
- PARSONAGE HOUSE, HAVERHILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165334
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parsonage House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARSONAGE HOUSE, HAVERHILL 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:
- PARSONAGE HOUSE, HAVERHILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Helions Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 65899 42448
Details
TL 64 SE HELIONS BUMPSTEAD HAVERHILL ROAD 2/19 Parsonage House 21/6/62 (formerly listed under General II*
Long-jetty house, mid-C16, altered in late C16, C19, and C20. Timber framed, exposed frame, plaster infill and brick nogging, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approximately E-W, jettied to S. Rear extension from W bay, blocking former window, with chimney stack at the junction, late C16. Stair tower with lean-to roof in the angle, and chimney stack to rear of middle bay, late C16. Rear extension from E bay, C19, forming a half-H plan. Conservatory between rear wings, C20. 2 storeys. C20 door in tiled gabled porch, 3 C19 casement windows with Gothick heads on each floor. 4 plain braces below jetty. 3 round shafts on W chimney stack, 3 octagonal shafts on middle chimney stack. Small areas of herringbone brick nogging are exposed at the rear and on the E side of the W wing, but probably the whole building was brick nogged in the C16; some may be plastered over and some has been replaced by plaster infill, leaving most of the frame exposed externally. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, close studding. Axial beams, plain-chamfered, joists of horizontal section. Studded partition removed between W and middle bays of ground floor. 5 C16 brick hearths, of which 4 have depressed arches. The most notable is the N ground floor hearth of the W stack, which has a band of terracotta ornament, scrolls and mermaids, possibly imported from the Low Countries, semi-octagonal attached shafts with moulded bases, and arched recess above mantel. Inserted ceiling above first floor, C17. Original clasped purlin roof with curved wind bracing.
Listing NGR: TL6589942448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114102
- 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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