Shops Farmhouse
SHOPS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197275
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Shops Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHOPS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197275
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Shops Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOPS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING 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:
- SHOPS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Doddinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 60213 98334
Details
DODDINGHURST
TQ69NW MOUNTNESSING LANE 723-1/6/325 (South side) 20/02/76 Shops Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD PETTITS LANE, Doddinghurst Shop Farmhouse)
II
House. Late C17 and C20. Timber-framed and rendered (C20) with large moulded motifs. Roof C20 peg tiles. Rectangular plan. 4 window range, all windows C20 wooden diamond latticed casements. Stack off-centre to E, grey red brick, 2 attached shafts, minor stack to W against gable enclosed by C20 lean-to addition. Door off-centre to W, boarded, in simple gabled porch. INTERIOR: 3 rooms all with deep sectioned ceiling joists with diminished haunched tenons and pendant soffits. Principal stack has 2 back-to-back fireplaces both with timber lintels (considerably rebuilt). First floor, primary bracing of wall framing, bladed scarf in wall plate and mullioned window in E gable with 3 mullions still extant but no shutter groove. Evidence of original position of front door not clear but probably lobby entrance. Rear similar to front, rendered with 4 window range. C19 bake oven projects from E end gable roofed with a small stack.
Listing NGR: TQ6021398334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373610
- 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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