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CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE

CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, WITHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168891
Date first listed:: 01-May-1953
List Entry Name:: CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, WITHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168891
Date first listed:: 01-May-1953
List Entry Name:: CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, WITHAM ROAD

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:: CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, WITHAM 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 79918 18724

Details

CRESSING WITHAM ROAD TL 71 NE (east side)

4/71 Cressing Temple 2.5.53 Farmhouse

GV II

House. Late C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered and roughcast, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing SE with axial stack near middle and external stack at right end. Crosswing at left end, forming a T-plan, with central stack. Early C19 extension in front angle, with lean-to roof of slate. 2 C20 gabled extensions to rear, with 2 catslide extensions. C19 single-storey extension to rear right, forming a lean-to at right end, of painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with red clay pantiles. 2 storeys. The SW elevation has a 4-window range,of early C20 sashes of 4 lights. The SE elevation has on the first floor of the crosswing one C19 casement, and on the first floor of the lean-to to right of it, one early C19 sash of 16 lights. The main range has on the ground floor 5 early C19 sashes of 16 lights and one C20 reproduction; and on the first floor 4 early c19 sashes of 4 + 8 lights with crown glass. In lean-to, C20 door in early C19 Tuscan portico with 2 columns, 2 pilasters and moulded entablature with panelled soffit. In main range, C20 door with early C19 simple architrave and canopy. The plaster is ashlared. Rusticated quoins of plaster on right return only to right of portico. Interior mainly plastered, little of frame visible except jowled posts. Axial beams boxed in. Oak panelling of c.1600. Clasped purlin roof. Bread oven at NE end. This may be the surviving part of a mansion described as 'the Greate House' in records of 1623 and 1669, but reported as a site in 1675 (J.H. Hope, 'The Knights Templars and the excavations at the Cressing Temple, 1978-1981', Essex Journal vol. 2, no. 2, Summer 1986, 31-4). RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL7991818724

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 116395
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Essex Journal' in Essex Journal, , Vol. 2, (1986), 31-4

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