Soams Farmhouse
SOAMS FARMHOUSE, NINE ASHES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197347
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Soams Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOAMS FARMHOUSE, NINE ASHES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197347
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Soams Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOAMS FARMHOUSE, NINE ASHES ROAD
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:
- SOAMS FARMHOUSE, NINE ASHES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stondon Massey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58504 00606
Details
STONDON MASSEY
TL50SE NINE ASHES ROAD 723-1/1/538 (West side) 20/02/76 Soams Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD NINE ASHES ROAD, Stondon Massey Soams Farmhouse)
II
House. c1600, C18/19 and C20. Timber-framed, roughcast rendered, red brick, roof peg-tiled with off centre stack an C18 rebuild but containing some early thin bricks. Plan rectangular, 3 cells with continuous rear out-shut. C18/19 secondary stack to S gable wall. 2 storeys. E front elevation - all windows are C20 metal casements with diamond leaded lights. Ground floor, N-S one light window, porch of timber and brick, gabled peg-tiled roof, door C20 flush panelled with a single leaded light, one 4-light window, one 3-light window. First floor, one 3-light window, one small 3-light window over porch, one 4-light and one 3-light window. S gable end (extending over out-shut). Ground floor C20 flush panelled door, stack, one C19 fixed light 4 panes, one C20 casement, 4 panes. First floor, one metal framed C20 casement, one wooden framed C20 casement. N end gable has brick walling on main house but rendering on out-shut. Ground floor outshut, 2-light iron casement and first floor 2-light metal casement above, first floor also segment headed window in brick wall, 2 lights, C19 iron casement, small panes, 3x4. Rear W elevation - outshut wall, one and a half storeys. Windows irregular, two 2-light C20 casements, one 3-light C20 casement, door to N end, simple framed and 2 panels, upper panel glazed, simple C20 hood over on shaped brackets. INTERIOR shows 'classic' 3 celled arrangement. Stout plain timbering and chimney bay containing back to back fireplaces (now partly blocked and rebuilt). Ceiling bridging joists with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Original doorway from first floor central room to closet over site of lobby entrance in front of stack. Also, original doorway from N end of first floor room at rear of stack to site of original stair at rear of stack. Middle rails at house front are particularly deep sectioned and this together with peg evidence suggests that large windows existed in the same positions as at present. Face halved and bladed scarfs, stout tension braces in transverse partitions and a cyma moulded corbel in the ground floor central room suggest a date c1600. The visible construction in the out-shut is now completely of C20. The out-shut was used as a dairy and is no doubt of considerable age. It probably also dates to the C17 and may have had a contemporary `catslide' roof but later alteration has probably raised the roof eave to present height.
Listing NGR: TL5850400606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373808
- 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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