Ansell's Farmhouse
ANSELL'S FARMHOUSE, HENNY BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166093
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ansell's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ANSELL'S FARMHOUSE, HENNY BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166093
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ansell's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANSELL'S FARMHOUSE, HENNY BACK LANE
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:
- ANSELL'S FARMHOUSE, HENNY BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alphamstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87309 35830
Details
ALPHAMSTONE HENNY BACK LANE TL 83 NE (west side) 2/14 Ansell's Farmhouse II House. Early C16, extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned NW-SE with late C16 axial chimney stack in SE bay, storeyed parlour/solar bay to NW. Service bay to SE demolished and replaced by large early C19 block, extended to SW in 1979. Other extensions to NW, 1979. Original house of one storey with attics, remainder of 2 storeys. SE elevation has a dado of red brick, 1979, with plaster above. 2-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights with some crown glass. Central C20 glazed door with early C19 pediment on scrolled brackets, and C20 repro- duction sash of 12 lights above. Roof hipped. The interior of the original building has jowled posts, heavy studding, original floor of lodged plain joists in NW bay, inserted floor in hall consisting of transverse and axial beams and joists of horizontal section, all chamfered with stops of an unusual design. There is evidence of an unglazed window below the half-hip at the NW end. Crownpost roof with thin axial braces, not smoke-blackened, indicating that a timber-framed chimney was present from the outset, before the present brick stack. The early C19 SW block has original folding shutters of pine on the ground floor. The house was near-derelict before restoration in 1979.
Listing NGR: TL8730935830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114803
- 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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