Brook Farm
BROOK FARM, MURTHERING LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197335
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK FARM, MURTHERING LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197335
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK FARM, MURTHERING 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:
- BROOK FARM, MURTHERING LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Navestock
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52535 96181
Details
NAVESTOCK
TQ59NW MURTHERING LANE 723-1/4/501 (West side) 20/02/76 Brook Farm (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD MURTHERING LANE, Navestock Brook House)
II
House. c1600. Timber-framed and weatherboarded with peg-tiled roof, half hipped with gablets. 2 storey and attic. 2 window range, central C20 porch. Central `concertina' chimney-stack, rebuilt and not exactly as original. Continuous rear outshut with `cat slide' roof. The plan is a `colonial prototype', rare in England, where the stack is set to the back of a central chimney bay allowing for a winding stair from ground floor to attics at the front by the door (in New England this was the norm). Windows UPVC double glazed C20 replacements but position and scale correct. INTERIOR: principal frame has jowled posts and straight tension bracing to middle rails and carpenters marks of medieval system. Joists of ground floor ceiling have chamfer stops of both lamb's tongue and diamond `broach' form. Roof, clasped side purlin type with wind braces from end wall frames. Old boarded door of contemporary type in attic. Outshut rebuilt but probably on site of original and sharing groundsill. Some rebuilding of fireplaces and part of stair. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 10: 193; Post-Medieval Archaeology: Hewett CA: Some East Anglian Prototypes for Early Timber-Framed Houses: 1969-; Cummings AL: The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay 1625-1725: Harvard: 1979-).
Listing NGR: TQ5253596181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373777
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921), 193
Cummings, A L, The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay 1625-1725, (1979)
Post Medieval Archaeology in Post Medieval Archaeology, (1969)
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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