SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE

SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BIRCHANGER LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170327
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BIRCHANGER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170327
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Feb-1980
List Entry Name:: SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BIRCHANGER LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BIRCHANGER LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Birchanger
National Grid Reference:: TL 50500 23500

Details

BIRCHANGER BIRCHANGER LANE 1. 5222 (north-east side) Sion House Farmhouse (formerly listed as Sion House) TL 52 SW 25/95 21.2.67

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2. C18 building built on an L shaped plan with a red brick front to the west and a timber-framed and plastered wing extending to the east at the rear. The front block and wing have parapets. Two storeys, attics and a sub basement on the west front. The west front has 5 window range and the east wing has 3 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. Raised bands extend across the front above the first storey windows and between the storeys. A late C19 or early C20 glazed porch projects on the centre of the west front approached by a long flight of stone steps with wrought iron railings. The east wing has a central doorway with plain Tuscan columns and a modillion cornice. Roofs tiled, double-pitched on the east wing, with 3 flat headed dormers on the north front. The east wing is probably the original house to which the west block was added.

Listing NGR: TL5050023500

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 121496
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.