Rowes Farmhouse

ROWES FARMHOUSE, 1 AND 2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169285
Date first listed:
29-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Rowes Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ROWES FARMHOUSE, 1 AND 2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169285
Date first listed:
29-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Rowes Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ROWES FARMHOUSE, 1 AND 2

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROWES FARMHOUSE, 1 AND 2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Willingale
National Grid Reference:
TL 61134 08849

Details

TL 60 NW WILLINGALE Rowes Farmhouse Nos 1 6/6 and 2

II Farmhouse, now cottages, c.1610, timber framed and plastered and of two storeys. An 'L' shaped block with half hipped peg tile roof with a lower service block at the north-east corner. Gable end stack at west end and tiny ridgeline stack towards west end. Very large red brick stack of late C17 on north wall of main block and through roof of service block, with inglenook below. Service block has red brick lean-to on west side with slate roof. Massively framed house with mixture of jowled and unjowled posts, of 4 bays, with heavy side purlin roof supported on square queen posts with big curved wind bracing. Bridging joists and posts are heavily stop-chamfered. Curiously there is no evidence for an original chimney stack. Service block appears to be extension of mid C17.

Listing NGR: TL6113408849

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
118533
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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