Birbecks
BIRBECKS, 9, REDGATES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196236
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Birbecks
- Statutory Address:
- BIRBECKS, 9, REDGATES LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07628/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196236
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Birbecks
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRBECKS, 9, REDGATES 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:
- BIRBECKS, 9, REDGATES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sewards End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 57064 38492
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL53NE REDGATES LANE, Sewards End 669-1/4/381 No.9 01/11/72 Birbecks
GV II
House. Mid C16 and early C17. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled tiled roof. 2 storeys with off-centre ridge stack of grouped diagonal shafts and early C17 moulded barge-boards. Front elevation has three 3-light casements on first floor over two 3-light and 1 single-light casement all with leaded lights. Small gabled C20 porch with exposed framing. Rear elevation has catslide lean-to at S end with tall stack, large flat roofed rear extension and C20 conservatory. First floor has three 3-light leaded casements. The present house is based on an in-line hall house of early to mid Cl6 with long internal wall bracing. In the early/mid C17 this was raised to a full 2 storeys by the addition of short jowled posts over the original wall plates and was slightly extended to the N. INTERIOR: the plan form/structure is now somewhat confused but some floor joists are chamfered and belong to the earlier phase. Entrance passage to rear of porch has brick paved floor. Early C17 stack has one ground floor and 2 first floor arch-headed fireplaces each with a mantel shelf of moulded brick and tile. Ground floor fireplace has salt cupboard and contemporary panelled doors on each flank. Stairs rise in front of stack in American colonial fashion. Moulded balusters contemporary with later phase or slightly later. N ground floor room has corner cupboard from elsewhere with elliptical arch, fluted pilasters and serpentine shelves.
Listing NGR: TL5706438492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370715
- 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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