Old Wills Farmhouse
OLD WILLS FARMHOUSE, LITTLE TEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169439
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Wills Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD WILLS FARMHOUSE, LITTLE TEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169439
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Wills Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD WILLS FARMHOUSE, LITTLE TEY 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:
- OLD WILLS FARMHOUSE, LITTLE TEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Feering
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8789121103
Details
TL 82 SE
3/107
FEERING
LITTLE TEY ROAD
(east side)
Old Wills Farmhouse
GV
II
Shown on OS map as Old Wills. House. C14/15, altered in C16 and C20. Timber
framed, plastered with frame partly exposed and some artificial framing, roofed
with handmade red plain tiles. 3-bay main range facing NE with late C16 stack
at the left end against the front wall, and internal stack at the right end.
2-bay crosswing to left, with small single-storey extension to the rear. C19
wing of painted brick to the left, with internal stack at the junction. Jettied
crosswing to right, of main range, c.1920, with axial stack. 2 storeys and one
storey with attics. Ground floor, 4 C20 casements with diamond leading. First
floor, 2 similar casements. C17 re-sited door of moulded planks, altered at
bottom, in reproduction 4-centred doorhead with modern carved date 1528 and
ovolo-moulded canopy. The left crosswing is jettied to the front, with 2
original wide plain brackets and one reproduction. Jowled posts, heavy studding
with curved tension braces trenched to the outside. The crosswing has plain
joists of large horizontal section; ceiled, probably to the collars of a
crownpost roof. The main range has a large wood-burning hearth facing to the
right of 0.33 metre brickwork, a late C16 inserted floor with plain joists of
square section jointed to the axial beam with soffit tenons with diminished
haunches, roof altered. RCHM 15.
Listing NGR: TL8789121103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116428
- 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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