35-39, CHURCH LANE
35-39, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170825
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 35-39, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 35-39, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170825
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 35-39, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 35-39, CHURCH LANE
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:
- 35-39, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75964 24424
Details
885 CHURCH LANE
(West Side) BOCKING
Nos 35 to 39 (odd)
(formerly listed as Nos 35 and 37)
TL 7524 4/56 25.10.51.
II*
Formerly "The Tabor House". John Bunyan is said to have stayed here. It is
an early C16 timber-framed and plastered house with a late C16 south part and
a gable at the north end. 2 storeys. The upper storey is jet tied on the whole front, with a moulded and carved bressumer on curved and moulded brackets springing from attached shafts with capitals. The ground storey has exposed timber framing. 4 window range, casements, some with old leaded lights. There is a c16 doorway with a 4-centered arch in a square head. Roof tiled with a C16 central chimney stack with fluted shafts and moulded brick caps, on a square base. (The original stack has been rebuilt on the old model). The interior has exposed beams and some original features. RCHM (20).
Listing NGR: TL7596424424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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