NORTH FARMHOUSE

NORTH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165654
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: NORTH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: NORTH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-04
Reference:: IOE01/00963/26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165654
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: NORTH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD

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:: NORTH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Loughton
National Grid Reference:: TQ 41400 95114

Details

TQ 49 NW LOUGHTON HIGH ROAD, 1/49 North Farmhouse 28.6.54 II GV

House, c.1600 and later. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 bays aligned approx. NE-SW, c.1600, with internal chimney stack at SW end, external chimney stack at NE end. SE extension from SW end, c.1620, with external chimney stack at end and contemporary stair tower in E angle. Entrance and lean-to porch in S angle, C20. Extension to SE, C20. 2 storeys and attics. NW elevation, towards High Road, 3 C20 leaded casement windows on ground floor, on first floor. Grouped diagonal shafts, C17 on Si,I stack, C20 on NE stack. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, straight bracing from posts to wallplates and tiebeams inside studs, not trenched. Blocked windows with ovolo mullions on both floors at Sil end of SW wall of earlier part, enclosed by later part. Complete window with ovolo-plus-concave moulded mullions and diagonally set iron bars in stair tower, C20 glass. Round newel and stairs original, ground floor to attic. 2 original panelled oak doors and hinges, and some reproductions. Fireplace with depressed arch and original plaster on first floor at SE end. Beside it, diamond mortices for unglazed window. Ground floor SW fireplace reduced in C18, with brick arch and jambs. The earliest part of the present building, the NE-SW block, is probably the crosswing of a former hall to the SE, demolished c.1620 arid replaced by the present SE extension. Many of the C20 features date front a careful restoration carried out in the 1920's.

Listing NGR: TQ4140095114

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Legacy System number:: 118631
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.