Kings Farmhouse

KINGS FARMHOUSE, KINGS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1224018
Date first listed:
07-Apr-1965
List Entry Name:
Kings Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
KINGS FARMHOUSE, KINGS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1224018
Date first listed:
07-Apr-1965
List Entry Name:
Kings Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
KINGS FARMHOUSE, KINGS 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KINGS FARMHOUSE, KINGS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Colchester (District Authority)
Parish:
Little Horkesley
National Grid Reference:
TL 96296 31698

Details

LITTLE HORKESLEY KINGS ROAD 1. 5214 Kings Farmhouse TL 93 SE 3/106 7.4.65 II* 2. C15 or earlier house. Now on a T-plan due to brick, painted, extension on north. Timber-framed and plastered and of at least 5 bays with red brick truncated central chimney stack mounting 6 octagonal shafts with bell-feet. Roof ridged and gabled peg-tiled with eaves, long jetty on south elevation. Line of jetty broken at centre with late fascia to east and exposed sill on joists to west. First storey has a range of 5 windows 2 casements left, and 3 casements right, then a tripartite window of which the original 'ears' remain. East half has knees under the jetty and the west has only joists' ends, the whole denting an original chimney bay. Ground storey windows mixed but including one large Venetian tripartite window left and right of central door which is of 6 panels and partly original. The whole truncated at west and because 2 service doors show on that wall, in a partly exposed frame.

Listing NGR: TL9629631698

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
419967
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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