Meekings Farmhouse
MEEKINGS FARMHOUSE, HARROW HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165387
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meekings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MEEKINGS FARMHOUSE, HARROW HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165387
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meekings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEEKINGS FARMHOUSE, HARROW HILL
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:
- MEEKINGS FARMHOUSE, HARROW HILL
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 71942 36277
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD HARROW HILL, North Side 3/22 Meekings Farmhouse GV II
House, c.1600, altered in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned NE-SW, with axial chimney stack in second bay from NE, and C20 external chimney stack at SW end. Single-storey extension to NE bay, forming a catslide roof, C18/19. C20 flat-roofed extensions to NW and SW of main range. Single storey with attics. Half-glazed door at front of tiled gabled porch, C20, 3 C20 casment windows, and 3 more in gabled dormers. The main stack has grouped diagonal shafts. The interior has jowled posts. All the floors are inserted in the early C17, with chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section supported on pegged clamps. In the front of the NE ground-floor room there are 2 blocked windows, each with an ovolo mullion, early C17. There is an inscription 'EB 1769' in the plaster inside the middle dormer. The SW end of the roof has been damaged by fire. RCHM 24.
Listing NGR: TL7194236277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114508
- 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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