MILL HOUSE

MILL HOUSE, GAINSFORD END

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165345
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: MILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MILL HOUSE, GAINSFORD END

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Date:: 2002-09-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165345
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: MILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MILL HOUSE, GAINSFORD END

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MILL HOUSE, GAINSFORD END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Toppesfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 72498 35129

Details

TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD GAINSFORD END

3/14 Mill House II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Houghton's Farm. House, c.1600, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. N-S, with axial chimney stack in second bay from S end, originally forming a lobby-entrance to E, now blocked. One-bay extension to N, C18, with external chimney stack on gable. Single-storey extension to rear of main stack, and rear porch in SE angle, both C20. 2 storeys and attics. W elevation, glazed door at front of tiled gabled porch, 2 casement windows on ground floor and 4 on first floor, all C20. The interior has jowled posts, some exposed close studding, plain-chamfered axial beams in bays 1 and 3 from S end, with lamb's tongue stops in bay 3 only. In both bays, plain-chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops. In original N bay, plain joists of horizontal section arranged longitudinally. 2 large wood-burning hearths. On first floor at original N end, curved tension bracing trenched inside studs. Inserted ceilings above first floor, early C17. In attic, floorboards of same date, and an unglazed window in each gable.

Listing NGR: TL7249835129

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Legacy System number:: 114501
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.