Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169878
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169878
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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:
- TL 87313 20358
Details
FEERING THE STREET TL 8620-8720 (south side)
7/121 Church Farmhouse
GV II
House, now divided into 2 dwellings. Circa 1400, altered in CL7 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall range facing NW with internal stack of c.1600 in left bay, 3-bay crosswing to left with C19 internal stack at rear, C20 external stack to left, and single-storey lean-to extensions to left and rear; 3-bay crosswing at right end of hall, c.1600, with C17 central stack. Both crosswings extend forwards, the right crosswing further than the left. C18 extensions to left of right crosswing, forming twin gables facing left. 2 storeys. NW elevation, scattered fenestration, all C20 casements, and C20 door in quadrant porch. SW elevation, 2-window range of C20 casements with rectangular leading, and half-glazed door in doorcase of c.1800 with wooden half-columns and frieze with triglyphs. At the rear is a similar door and doorcase, frieze missing or covered. The left crosswing has an underbuilt jetty to the front, and in the front bay heavy plain joists of near-square section are exposed; elsewhere in this wing and at this end of the hall range the timber frame is mainly covered by plaster. The hall range has been raised approx. one metre in the C17. In the right bay, large wood-burning hearth, of which the rear part has been demolished, and inserted floor of c.1600, comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section. In the right crosswing, wide curved tension braces are trenched inside heavy studding. Jowled posts. On the ground floor 2 wood-burning hearths both with internal splays; the front hearth has an ovolo-moulded mantel beam, the rear hearth has a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue and bar stops, and minor repairs to brickwork. In the rear bay a medieval timber has been re-used as a floor beam, and the floor has been lifted to compensate for subsidence of the right wall. On the first floor there is a cast iron grate of c.1800 facing forwards, incomplete.
Listing NGR: TL8731320358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116443
- 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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