Meads Farm Cottages
MEADS FARM COTTAGES, GREAT YELDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165373
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meads Farm Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- MEADS FARM COTTAGES, GREAT YELDHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165373
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meads Farm Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADS FARM COTTAGES, GREAT YELDHAM 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:
- MEADS FARM COTTAGES, GREAT YELDHAM ROAD
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 74758 37282
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD GREAT YELDHAM ROAD North Side 3/18 Meads Farm Cottages II
Wrongly shown on OS map as Meads Farm. House, early C15, altered in C19, now 2 cottages. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned approx. E-W, aspect S, with integral storeyed service bay to E, and 2-bay parlour/solar crosswing to W. C16 external chimney stack on rear wall of hall, C19 external chimney stacks on and E walls. C20 single-storey extension to rear, with corrugated asbestos roof. 2 storeys. 2 half-glazed doors, 3 double-hung sash windows of 6 lights, all late C19, one small C20 casement. First floor, one C20 metal casement window on crosswing, and 3 more in gabled dormers. Roof of crosswing hipped. Top of C16 chimney stack rebuilt in C20. The interior has some exposed framing, the original main frame almost complete. The E bay has the original lodged floor with blocked stair trap; the hall has an early C17 inserted floor consisting of axial beams chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and plain deep joists. The central truss has deep braces to the cambered tiebeam, heavy crownpost chamfered and stopped with 4-way braces, complete. The E end is of interrupted tiebeam construction. The roof of the E bay has been rebuilt in softwood; otherwise the crownpost roofs are almost complete. There has been some rebuilding of the main rear hearth.
Listing NGR: TL7475837282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114505
- 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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