Former Barn to Fridays Farmhouse

Aldocks, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247767
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Former Barn to Fridays Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Aldocks, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247767
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Former Barn to Fridays Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Aldocks, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Aldocks, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ

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

County:: Essex
District:: Chelmsford (District Authority)
Parish:: Mashbury
National Grid Reference:: TL 65626 13037

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 January 2023 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

TL 61 SE 4/1023

FOX ROAD Aldocks

(Formerly listed as BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH WEST OF FRIDAY FARM HOUSE)

II

Barn. Circa mid C17, extended in c18. Timber-framed on brick plinth; lime plastered with single zigzag pattern pargetted panels; the lower section weatherboarded. Corrugated asbestos sheet roof with gabled ends.

Originally five-bays with midstrey to the wider central bay on the north side, extended by one bay at the west end in the c18.

North elevation has large gabled midstrey to the left of centre with plank double doors and weatherboarding above, and small doorway on left. Late weatherboarded building attached to east end with low lean to hipped roof clad in pan tiles and doorway in gable above.

Interior: Frame intact, large storey post with slightly jowled head, large girt wall plate and side-plate; close-studding and some straight diagonal bracing trenched into the face of the studding. Much original wall framing reused in the C18 west end wall. Curved braces to tie-beams, except c18 bay which has curved brackets. Queen -post roof with tenoned staggered side-purlins some of which are raised timbers, and no ridgepiece. Most of the common rafters survive, pegged to the purlins. Carpenters' assembly marks on the storey posts. Midstrey roof has cellars and clasped side purlins.

Listing NGR: TL6562613037

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 429136
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.