Lower Dairy Farmhouse

LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE, NAYLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1224024
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Lower Dairy Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE, NAYLAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1224024
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Lower Dairy Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE, NAYLAND 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:
LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE, NAYLAND 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 96643 33026

Details

LITTLE HORKESLEY NAYLAND ROAD 1. 5214 Lower Dairy Farmhouse TL 93 SE 3/4 23.6.62 II GV 2. C16 on T-plan, timber-framed and plastered infill, front exposed. Main range of 4 bays side with renewed wooden leaded casements. Cross-wing at south, with carved verge boards and finial, also carved tie-beam which is jettied. Traces of a Venetian 3-part window on first storey and traces of a matching window of full width on ground storey with modern 3-light mullion and transom leaded casements now central to both. First floor girt carved with pairs of addressed 'beasts' and an armorial escutcheon at centre. Verge boards carved with vine trail, formalised and late. Roofs,ridge and gable peg-tiled. One C17 red brick chimney at centre of long range. Gable porch at centre front, west. (RCHM l72/5).

Listing NGR: TL9664333026

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Legacy System number:
419977
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922), 172

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Lower Dairy Farmhouse

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