The Blue House
THE BLUE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165763
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Blue House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BLUE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165763
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Blue House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BLUE HOUSE
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:
- THE BLUE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lambourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 48696 94865
Details
TQ 49 SE LAMBOURNE The Blue House 5/35 II
Lobby-entrance house, C17, extended inn C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. NE-SW with axial chimney stack in second bay from NE end, forming a lobby-entrance to the NW. 2 storey lean-to rear extension for stair to SE, either original or an early alteration, comparable with New England 'salt-box' houses. Weatherboarded extension to SW, single storey with attics, C19. 2 storeys. NW elevation, ground floor, tiled gabled porch, 2 C20 casement windows. First floor, 3 C20 casement windows. Roof hipped at NE end only. Grouped diagonal chimney shafts, reduced in height. Chamfered axial beams above ground floor rooms each side of chimney stack, with lamb's tongue stops to SW, unstopped to NE. hearth reduced for coal-burning grate, SW hearth altered, with inserted mantel beam (re-used timber) and brickwork renewed above. Butt-purlin roof, re-using some smoke- blackened medieval rafters. Attic has been lathed and plastered to rafters, possibly for storage use, later stripped. RCHM 10.
Listing NGR: TQ4869694865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118654
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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