VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES

VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168689
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES
Statutory Address:: VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2003-01-18
Reference:: IOE01/09858/32
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168689
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES
Statutory Address 1:: VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: VIRGINA HOUSE AND THE STORES, HIGH STREET

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:: TL7125531325

Details

TL 7031-7131 5/175 24.6.83

WETHERSFIELD HIGH STREET (north side) Virginia House and The Stores

GV II

House, now house and shop. C.1570, altered in C18 and c.1900. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 4 bays facing approx. SE, and rear wing of 2 bays at left end, with originally external stack in rear angle, now enclosed by C18 extension to rear. C17 external stack at right end of main range. Extension behind right bay, and single-storey lean-to extension beyond. C18 extension in front of left bay, now forming shop. C19 extension of red brick with slate roof behind left bay, and C20 extension beyond. The left bay of the main range, with extensions in front and behind it, now form The Stores; the remainder is Virginia House. 2 storeys and cellar. The Stores, C19 shopfront with central half-glazed door, early C19 sash of 6 lights above, and hipped roof. Plain bargeboards in left return. Virginia House, two 2-storey splayed bays of sashes of 2-4-2 lights, c.1900, and central 6-panel door, of which the top panels are glazed. The original building has jowled posts, close studding with curved braces trenched to the inside chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops in the 2 middle bays, elsewhere plain, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing. Large wood-burning hearth on the ground floor with rebuilt depressed arch, smaller hearth above with original depressed arch, stripped of plaster. On the first floor of The Stores, wood-burning hearth with band of ornamental plaster on mantel, with design of shells, foliage, diamonds, flowers and interlacing. On the first floor of Virginia House, unglazed window with 2 of 3 diamond mullions, blocked by the C17 external stack, and a complete range of oak panelled cupboards with 8 cockshead hinges, c.1600, a rare feature. The front of Virginia House has original frieze windows with moulded mullions and diamond saddle bars on both floors. The combination of early glazed windows at the front, an unglazed window at the side, lamb's tongue stops and a crownpost roof makes the original building finely datable to c.1570. (J. Mccann, The Introduction of the Lamb's Tongue Stop, Historic Buildings in Essex 2, 1985). RCHM 7.

Listing NGR: TL7125531325

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 115687
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Historic Buildings in Essex' in Historic Buildings in Essex, , Vol. 2, (1985)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.