Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)
CASTLE HOUSE (THE SPINNING WHEEL), THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168521
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HOUSE (THE SPINNING WHEEL), THE GREEN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03520/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168521
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HOUSE (THE SPINNING WHEEL), THE GREEN
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:
- CASTLE HOUSE (THE SPINNING WHEEL), THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7110831282
Details
TL 7031-7131
5/157
21.12.67
WETHERSFIELD
THE GREEN
(north side)
Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)
GV
II
House. Early C16, extended in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed
with handmade red clay tiles. Continuous jetty house of 4 bays facing S, with
axial stack one bay from right end, C18/C19 stack at left end. C18 extension
with gambrel roof to rear of right bay. 2 C20 extensions with flat roofs to
rear of remainder. 2 storeys. 3-window range of mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights.
C20 door and shop window in right bay. 4 C19 scrolled brackets below jetty.
Chapel Cottage encloses the right side and the right front corner, including one
original plain bracket below the jetty. Wrought iron lantern bracket with
scrolls, adapted to support shop sign. Recessed panels in chimney. Jowled
posts, half-height jowls on rear posts, chamfered with step stops. Chamfered
binding beams with step stops, axial beams unstopped. Close studding with
curved braces trenched to the outside, exposed in Chapel Cottage. Blocked
doorway with 4-centred head between right bay and the next. Large wood-burning
hearth facing left, reduced for C20 grate. Hearth facing right with depressed
arch of plastered brick, plaster guilloche design above, chamfered jambs with
5-leafed plant in plaster, c.1600. On first floor, blocked unglazed window at
right end, and diamond mortices for unglazed windows at front. Chamfered
tiebeams with step stops, arched braces, clasped purlin roof with arched
wind-bracing. RCHM 13.
Listing NGR: TL7110831282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115669
- 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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