27 AND 29, WELL LANE
27 AND 29, WELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247677
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 27 AND 29, WELL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 27 AND 29, WELL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247677
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 27 AND 29, WELL LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27 AND 29, WELL 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:
- 27 AND 29, WELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Galleywood
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70969 02909
Details
The following building shall be added:
WELL LANE TL 70 SW GALLEYWOOD (East Side) 13/920 Nos 27 and 29 II
2. House, now two houses. Mid C16; No. 27 altered 1692; mid C18 rear wing. Render over timber frame; mid C18 rear range of Flemish bond red brick; gabled old tile roofs; rendered brick stacks. Mid C16 central 2-storey hall, with original service range (heightened 1692) to left and evidence of former cross wing (demolished) to right; rear range of mid C18 added to make double-pile plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Flat rendered arches over C20 doors to right and left and late C19 three-light casements with glazing bars. Mid C18 two-storey, 3-window range elevation to rear, with ground-floor segmental arches and first-floor flat arches over C20 3-light windows. Interior of No. 29 to right; exposed C16 studding with passing braces; chamfered beam and plain joists to ground floor; first floor room has stop-chamfered wall post to tie beam with chamfered arch bracing and central mortice for former crown post. Studding of former cross wing to rear. Chimney stack has been inserted in former through passage to left. Mid C18 rooms to rear have beaded segmental-arched wooden fireplace surroundto ground floor and 2-panelled doors. Interior of No. 27: exposed timber framing survives from mid C16 house; inserted floor joists to chamfered ogee-stopped beam; Originally of I$ storeys; remodelled and raised to two storeys in 1692; open fireplace to right has inscribed initials and dates 1692 and 1708. First-floor partition has door post inscribed "AT THE CHARGE OF IACOB PANETT THE ELDEST SUSANNA HIS WIFE SUSANNA HIS DAUGHTER WHO WROUGHT EXCEEDING HARD FOR IT. PRAY DO NOT SPEND IT" and "THIS HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1692"; evidence of former partition to below; C18 panelle doors with H hinges; side purlin roof with raised rafters from a couple rafter or crown post roof.
Listing NGR: TL7096902909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428991
- 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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