Bennett's Farmhouse
BENNETT'S FARMHOUSE, HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197212
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Bennett's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BENNETT'S FARMHOUSE, HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197212
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bennett's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENNETT'S FARMHOUSE, HALL 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:
- BENNETT'S FARMHOUSE, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 60478 96876
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ69NW HALL LANE, Shenfield 723-1/6/270 (North side) 20/02/76 Bennett's Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: HALL LANE, Shenfield Palmers Farmhouse)
II
House. C17, extended in C18/early C19, renovated c1986. Timber-framed, clad with plastered brick on ground floor, weatherboarded above, roofed with machine-made and handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 4 bays facing S, with axial stack in second bay from left end, forming a lobby-entrance, and external stack at right end. Parallel 2-storey range to rear, of same length but narrower and lower, C18/early C19, with central stack, and C19 single-storey wing to rear left. 2 storeys with attics. Ground floor, one C20 casement and two C20 sashes, and C20 sash in position of former door, with C20 gabled porch. First floor, three C20 sashes. The roof of the main range is of machine-made tiles; the roof of the rear range is hipped, of handmade tiles; the roof of the rear wing is of machine-made tiles. All windows were renewed in tropical hardwood, in earlier patterns, c1986. C18/early C19 wide plain boarded door, sand-blasted, with original hinges and internal fittings, in left elevation of rear range. INTERIOR: unjowled posts. The left bay has an axial beam supported at the left end by an inserted post, and plain joists of vertical section jointed with soffit tenons with diminished haunches; the soffits have been hacked to increase clearance. Hearth rebuilt in C20. Wide wood-burning hearth facing to right, with 0.33m jambs and a seat recess in each, original, re-pointed. Transverse beam to right of it, also hacked, and similar joists. The ground-floor partition to right of it has been removed, and replaced c1986 by inserted open studding of old timber. The right bay has a chamfered axial beam, stops missing, and thin plain joists; C20 hearth. The front wallplate has a simple edge-halved scarf 0.50m from the left end. The rear wallplate has one similar scarf, one edge-halved and bridled scarf, and one bladed scarf, indicating some re-use of earlier timber. In the left bay at the rear is an original window of early glazed type, with one ovolo mullion and diamond mortices for 2 saddle bars, sand-blasted. Altered C17 rebated and moulded door to attic, now reduced to 2 planks. Clasped purlin roof with straight collars. All exposed timber of the interior has been destructively sand-blasted, and arched braces have been introduced as decor. 2 sections of C17 oak panelling have been re-sited, turned so that the formerly vertical panels are now horizontal.
Listing NGR: TQ6047896876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373444
- 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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