Great Coopers Farmhouse
GREAT COOPERS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247708
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Great Coopers Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT COOPERS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Date:
- 1999-10-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/00340/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247708
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Great Coopers Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT COOPERS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- GREAT COOPERS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rettendon
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77916 94775
Details
I. RETTENDON THE GREEN 5213 BATTLEBRIDGE
TQ 79 SE 21/951 20.6.80 GREAT COOPERS FARMHOUSE
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17 crosswing and brewhouse - bakehouse to rear, connected by early/mid C19 bay; late C17/early C18 wing added to left of crosswing. Render over brick and timber frame; gabled old tile roofs; C17 brick ridge and end stacks finished in C20 brick. L-plan with rear right wing. One storey and attic; 2-window range. Mid C19 bracketed gabled hood over 4-panelled central door; segmental arches over 3-light wood casements, some of which are mid/late C19; large mid C19 gabled dormer to left. Late C17/early gabled wing to rear left. One storey bakehouse to rear, with weatherboard over timber frame and C20 door and wood casements. Interior: exposed timber frame. Cross-wing to right has chamfered beam and C17 window opening to rear and open fireplace and stop-chamfered beam and joists; stop -chamfered beams and joists to left; jowled storey posts to cellar trusses, exposed at first floor level, with C17 four-light wood-mullioned window to rear. Brewhouse/bakehouse to rear, of 2 bays, has exposed timber frame with C17 wood- mullioned window to rear; straight-bracing to tie beams of reconstructed roof; bay to left has timber lintel over large open fireplace with bread oven; floored end to right has quarter-turn staircase with solid treads. This house was moved from its original site at Coopers End, Takely, following the expansion of Stanstead Airport.
Listing NGR: TQ7791694775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429037
- 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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