Orchard House
ORCHARD HOUSE, ALPHAMSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166288
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, ALPHAMSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166288
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, ALPHAMSTONE 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:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, ALPHAMSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88926 35618
Details
LAMARSH ALPHAMSTONE ROAD TL 83 NE (south side) 2/63 (25/526) Orchard House 21.6.62 GV II House. C15, altered in C16 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed wth handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing N with late C16 axial chimney stack in E bay, and storeyed parlour/solar bay to W. 2-bay crosswing to E, late C16. C18 lean-to extensions to W and to rear, early C20 2-storey extension to SE. Crosswing of 2 storeys, main range of one storey with attics. 3 C20 casement windows. On first floor, one sash of 15 lights, and one of 16 lights in gabled dormer, both C18. 4-panel door in C19 gabled porch with trefoiled piercing and latticed sides. W end has original gablet roof. Grouped diagonal shafts with dogtooth ornament, rebuilt at top. The main range has a late C16 inserted floor on clamps, the axial beam chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The central truss has been altered in the late C16 with principal rafters to eliminate the tiebeam, an unusual construction. Crownpost roof, smoke-blackened, with charring of rafter at E end, indicating a former smoke bay. The crosswing has chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, clasped purlin roof with curved wind- bracing, and in the gable a blocked original window with ovolo moulding. Formerly known as Street Farmhouse. RCHM 8.
Listing NGR: TL8892635618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114852
- 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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