MAYFLOWER HOUSE

MAYFLOWER HOUSE, ELMS HALL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169836
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: MAYFLOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MAYFLOWER HOUSE, ELMS HALL ROAD

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Date:: 2005-10-31
Reference:: IOE01/14813/06
Rights:: © Mr Wilfred N. Winder. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169836
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: MAYFLOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MAYFLOWER HOUSE, ELMS HALL 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:: MAYFLOWER HOUSE, ELMS HALL ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Colne Engaine
National Grid Reference:: TL 83680 29844

Details

TL 82 NW COLNE ENGAINE ELMS HALL ROAD (north side)

5/10 Mayflower House 3.11.72 (Formerly listed as House c.150 yards west of Elms Hall)

- II

House. Circa 1600, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing S, with stack in middle bay, forming a lobby-entrance. Full-length lean-to extension to rear, and C20 extension of one storey with attics to rear of right end. 2 storeys and attics. 3-window range of C20 casements. Central C20 door. 4 octagonal chimney shafts, each with a roll moulding at the base, rebuilt at the top. Jowled posts, close studding, edge-halved and bridled scarf in wallplate. The first and attic floors have chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. Mortices for early glazed windows. Blocked window on first floor at centre front, possibly with ovolo mullions and saddle bars concealed in plaster. The stack is behind the axis, leaving space for a stair in the lobby-entrance, now missing; the flues emerge at the ridge. On the ground floor 2 large wood-burning hearths, the right mantel beam renewed, the left mantel beam original, with cranked upper surface, chamfered below with mason's mitre stops, and chamfered brick jambs. On the first floor, one hearth to right of stack with chamfered jambs, 4-centred arch and original plaster. Clasped purlin roof with straight wind-bracing. RCHM 4 reported a modern date 1620 on the W gable and an original bay window at the W end of the house with 6 transomed lights with moulded mullions, both missing in 1985. Formerly known as nos. 1 and 2, Railway Cottages and Elms Hall Farm Cottages. A photograph and plan appear in A.L. Cummings, 'The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725', 1978, as prototypical of the earliest New England houses.

Listing NGR: TL8368029844

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Legacy System number:: 115859
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cummings, A L , The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay 1625-1725, (1979)

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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.