Blois Farmhouse
BLOIS FARMHOUSE, BLOIS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166165
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Blois Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BLOIS FARMHOUSE, BLOIS ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11465/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166165
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Blois Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLOIS FARMHOUSE, BLOIS 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:
- BLOIS FARMHOUSE, BLOIS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 68507 41570
Details
2/69 STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD BLOIS ROAD TL 64 SE 2/69 21/6/62 Blois Farmhouse GV II House, C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay crosswing aligned approx. N-S, late C16, and 3-bay range to W, c.1600, forming an L-plan. Original axial chimney stack in middle bay of E-W range, and stair tower to N of it. Single-storey lean-to extension between stair tower and N wing, with slate roof, C19. 2 storeys. S elevation, 6-panel door in simple doorcase with dentilled cornice below hood, C18, early C19 french windows with marginal lights, one early C19 tripartite sash window of 4-12-4 lights, and one late C19 tripartite sash window of 2-4-2 lights. First floor, one early C19 sash window of 16 lights, and 3 late C19 tripartite sash windows of 2-4-2 lights. C19 fretted bargeboards on gable of crosswing. Grouped diagonal shafts on chimney stack. Some crown glass in early C19 windows on this elevation and E elevation. In dormer at rear, C18 window of 3 fixed lights with rectangular leading and some C18 glass. The interior has jowled posts, curved bracing trenched inside heavy studding, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Axial and transverse beams above ground floor, some boxed in, some plain-chamfered. Cambered tiebeam in crosswing, with clasped purlin roof. 2 large wood-burning hearths reduced for coal grates. RCHM 29.
Listing NGR: TL6850741570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114191
- 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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