Danceys
DANCEYS, MIDDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239841
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Danceys
- Statutory Address:
- DANCEYS, MIDDLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239841
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Danceys
- Statutory Address 1:
- DANCEYS, MIDDLE STREET
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:
- DANCEYS, MIDDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clavering
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 47293 31901
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
TL 4731 CLAVERING MIDDLE STREET
41/10004 Danceys
GV II
House, partly of non-domestic form originally. C16 3-bay main range and cross-wing with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed, rendered, with brick plinth. Plain tile roofs. 3- bay central lobby-entry range facing garden with added end stack. Stair tower to rear flanked by two-storey extension to left and single-storey extension to right. 5-bay cross-wing under hipped roof with central stack runs back from road at left, forming L- plan. This has a C20 extension attached to left. Two storeys throughout. Garden front: 3-bay range has two canted bays under tile roofs. An open porch, integral with the right hand bay, contains a 4-panel door. 2-light casement to left. C20 3-light casements to first floor. The end wall of the cross range has a 3-light C18 leaded casement to the ground floor and a C20 3-light casement above. Street front: 3-bay range, C20 casements throughout, 4-panel door in lean-to porch. Cross-wing flank wall has 3 C18 3-light casements and one C20 casement. Interior: The only framing exposed in the 3-bay range is a pair of longitudinal beams with tongue and jewel stops. They bear onto the inglenook which has chamfered jambs, a chamfered cambered mantelbeam and salt niches. Cross Range: Its unusual plan is not domestic in form. The wide bay nearest the street is an addition. The remainder is divided into 4 unequal bays, two narrow bays to the front and 2 wider bays to the rear. The stack in the second narrow bay is inserted. Everything above wall plate level, including the tie beams, has been removed by C18 heightening. Some lightly smoke-blackened rafters are incorporated in the roof. Ground floor: The two rear bays form a single fine room. The central posts are hollow-chamfered. Wide-chamfered beam; centre-tenoned joists with housed soffits, stencilled with Tudor roses. Shutter groove to end wall with central peg. The two narrow bays were subdivided by stud partitions. To first floor posts 2 and 4 (of the 4-bay section) are chamfered with asymmetrical stops at feet).
Listing NGR: TL4729331901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417855
- 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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