Collins Cross Farmhouse
COLLINS CROSS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166206
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Collins Cross Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COLLINS CROSS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166206
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Collins Cross Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLINS CROSS FARMHOUSE
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:
- COLLINS CROSS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51920 11956
Details
TL 519 119 MATCHING COLLINS CROSS Collins Cross Farmhouse 3/46 12.11.80 II
Hall house, c.1500, altered in C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered,roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned approx. N-S with storeyed parlour/solar end to N and storeyed service end to S. Inserted axial chimney stack in S bay of hall, c.1600. External chimney at N end. External chimney stack at S end with large bread oven to SW of it, with gabled roof. Lean-to extension to W of hall and parlour, with lean"-to porch in SW angle. Single storey with attic at S end, remainder of 2 storeys. Frame partly exposed internally. Jowled wallposts, curved bracing trenched to outside of studs. Central tiebeam of hall removed, exposing lap dovetail tying joints with entrant shoulders. Original joists of parlour/solar end arranged longitudinally, raised approx. 18 cm at N end. Floor at service end wholly rebuilt in C20, but with mortices for soffit tenons visible, showing that originally it was similar to that of N end. Floor inserted in hall c.1600. Roof of service end of clasped purlin construction, with massive curved wind braces. Walls of hall and parlour solar end raised by approx. 1 metre in C17, and roof rebuilt, clasped purlin construction. Evidence of large hall window on W side. Studs of partition between hall and parlour fully exposed, with 3 tenons and mortices to support former fixed bench on S side. Bread oven of elliptical plan, larger than usual domestic size, complete except for door, C18.
Listing NGR: TL5192011956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118149
- 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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