Hopkins Farmhouse
HOPKINS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169516
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hopkins Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOPKINS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169516
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hopkins Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPKINS FARMHOUSE
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:
- HOPKINS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Belchamp Walter
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79956 39454
Details
BELCHAMP WALTER TL 73 NE
3/4 Hopkins Farmhouse 7.8.52 - II
Farmhouse. C15 or earlier and c.1600. Timber framed and plastered with peg tile roof which is half-hipped with gables at west end and has small gabled terminations at the front and rear of the east end. Of one storey with attics but with 2 low floors at east end. The front has an off-centre, open gabled and peg tile roofed C20 porch and one gabled dormer. The rear roof slope has 2 similar dormers. Off-centre on the ridge line is a stack with 4 octagonal shafts. Windows are C20 casements with small panes. A medium sized farmer open hall house of 'in line' type, with inserted floor with stop chamfered joists and late C16 large stack, with semi-circular inglenook to hall. This has a moulded timber mantel bead. The central posts and tiebeams survive with heavy, flat chamfered arch braces and simple soot-blackened crown post roof with thin straight bracing. c.1600 the low end was rebuilt as 2 storeys with the curious, 'reversed assembly' gabled terminations and moulded corbels. One truss of this phase has a raised collar with arch braces. The west or high end bay was also widened at this time. In this west room is an elaborate late C18 corner cupboard with serpentine shelves and raised and fielded panel doors and painted putt in the spandrels. RCHM 6.
Listing NGR: TL7995639454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115722
- 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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