Knight's Farmhouse
KNIGHT'S FARMHOUSE, HALSTEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169856
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knight's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNIGHT'S FARMHOUSE, HALSTEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169856
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knight's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNIGHT'S FARMHOUSE, HALSTEAD 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:
- KNIGHT'S FARMHOUSE, HALSTEAD 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 83831 30591
Details
TL 83 SW COLNE ENGAINE HALSTEAD ROAD (north side)
2/17 Knight's Farmhouse
GV II
House. C17, altered in C18, early C19 and C20. Timber framed, clad with gault brick in Flemish bond, painted brick and plaster, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 6 bays facing S, with 2 axial stacks and one rear front right corner. Single-storey extension to left, 1938. Shorter parallel range to rear, C18 with one external stack of red brick near left end, and single-storey lean-to extensions near it. C20 rear wing at right end with one internal stack, and lean-to conservatory to right. 2 storeys. 6-window range of C20 sashes in early C19 apertures. Approximately central 6-panel door with panelled jambs and soffit, moulded flat canopy, and hinged roller blind incorporated, all early C19. Roof hipped. In the main range one transverse beam is exposed, chamfered without stops; 2 others are boxed in. Below roof level the timber frame, reported to be close-studded, is wholly concealed by panelling and plaster finishes. The roof is of joggled butt-purlin construction, the rafters set vertically; it incorporates many re-used rafters from a medieval crownpost roof, some smoke-blackened.
Listing NGR: TL8383130591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115866
- 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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