PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE

PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE, BUTLERS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196130
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE, BUTLERS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196130
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE, BUTLERS 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PAINTER'S FARMHOUSE, BUTLERS LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 56363 40031

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL54SE BUTLERS LANE 669-1/6/45 Painter's Farmhouse 01/11/72 (Formerly Listed as: ASHDON ROAD Painters Farmhouse)

II

House. C17, C18 with C20 additions. Timber-framed, rendered on brick plinth with C20 pargetted decoration, peg-tiled roof. L shaped plan. One and a half and 2 storeys. Original E-W range with N-S C18 addition at W end, then, 1964-5 raising and expansion of C18 unit in internal angle on E side which now contains the front door. All windows C20 casements with rectangular leaded panes. S garden elevation: original frontage. One and half storeys, 3 window range, two 4-light and one 3-light window. Roof half-hipped at both ends, tall central stack, 2-light gabled dormer window immediately to E. W end elevation: 2-storeys, original sweep of roof of old house to S continued to N and hipped. External stack near E end, reduced at eaves and rebuilt. Ground floor has C20 2-leaf stable door at N end with bracketed flat hood, 3-light window at S end. First floor, two 2-light and one 3-light window. N end elevation: 2 storeyed hip roofed block with catslide roof to N of C20 addition. 2 ground floor 3-light windows. Behind, to E, N wall of original block blank. E elevation: now front. Original one and a half storey, half hipped gable end to S with principal original framing exposed but also has inserted sham studding between middle rail and tie-beam. Ground floor 4-light window, upper 3-light window over tie-beam. To N all C20 work. Ground floor principal doorway, door boarded with Tudor arched head and battens. 3-light window adjacent each side, to N 1 single-light window. Above, flat roofed 4-light dormer window through catslide roof. INTERIOR: much altered but E fireplace of old stack, with jambs rebuilt, has original oak mantel beam. W fireplace reconstructed. Axial floor joists E and W from stack are original. Upper floor in C18 addition shows wall plates of that period for one and a half storeys, now raised to full 2 storeys. RCHM Mon.133 records C18 work as 1752.

Listing NGR: TL5636340031

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Legacy System number:: 370424
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

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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.