Cresley's Farmhouse
CRESLEY'S FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168706
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cresley's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CRESLEY'S FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168706
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cresley's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRESLEY'S FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CRESLEY'S FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cressing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80025 19458
Details
CRESSING CHURCH ROAD TL 71 NE (east side)
4/51 Cresley's Farmhouse
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as New House. House. Early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with axial stack in second bay from right end, and partly external stack at left end. Long early C20 wing behind left end, connecting house with C18/19 ancillary building, and C20 extension in E angle, with rear jetty. 2 storeys. 3 C20 casements on ground floor, 4 on first floor, and 2 in gabled dormers. C20 door at front of gabled porch. Ovolo-moulded cornices on both stacks. 4 grouped octagonal shafts on main stack, 2 on left stack. Jowled posts, heavy studding with primary straight bracing, chamfered axial beams in all rooms on both storeys. All have lamb's tongue stops except that in the right ground floor room, which has lamb's tongues and additional notches. Plain joists of vertical section. On the ground floor the left stack has a C20 grate; the main stack has a wide wood-burning hearth with brick depressed arch facing left, and a smaller, similar hearth facing right, reduced for a C20 grate. On the first floor both hearths of the main stack have brick depressed arches; that facing left has an early C19 cast iron grate; that facing right is reduced for a C20 grate. In the same stack, facing forwards on the first floor, is a small cupboard with original plain door for spices, gunpowder, etc. Original clasped purlin roof. RCHM 10.
Listing NGR: TL8002519458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116376
- 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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