Former Fridays Farmhouse
Fridays, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247783
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Fridays Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Fridays, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247783
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Fridays Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Fridays, Fox Road, Mashbury, CM1 4TJ
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:
- Fridays, 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 65669 12995
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
4/1024
MASHBURY
FOX ROAD
Fridays
(Formerly listed as FRIDAYS FARMHOUSE)
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid C15 crosswing, circa 1600 hall range. Early C19 refronting and reroofing. C20 rear extension. Render on timber frame and brickwork. Slate hipped roof in double pile form. Four range vertical sliding sashes 8:8. Six panel door with fanlight over. Flat headed canopy on moulded brackets. Red brick stack.
Service crosswing. Two bays aligned N/S oak frame substantial section fully pegged. Jowled storey posts with external trenched bracing. Ground Floor. Flat section floor joists jointed into bridging joist with housed soffit and central tenon joint. Stair trap trimmed in NW corner. 2½" (63 mm) chamfer to bridging joist with angled stop. Empty mortises for central partition. Service door openings identified by peg positions. Three diamond mullion window with shutter groove exposed in rear wall. First Floor. Tie beam missing roof raised by two foot. Empty brace mortice for open central truss. Three diamond mullion window in rear wall. Door opening in east wall possibly for gardrobe.
1600 two storied hall range. Three bays aligned E/W. Oak frame pegged. Jowled storey posts with internal serpentine bracing. Ground Floor. Vertical section common floor joists with soffit tenons and diminished haunches into chamfered axial bridging joists. Front door retained in cross entry position - contemporary brick stack with timber mantlebeam. Brick jambs rebuilt 1980's. Positioned at lower end of central hall bay. Evidence now lost for original parlour partition. Trimmed stair opening in west end parlour bay. First Floor. Cranked brace remaining in open truss adjacent to brick stack. Exposed close studding in end (west) chamber bay. Trenched down bracing to studded bay partition. Door position against north wall. Three diamond mullion window in west wall (no evidence of shutter groove or pintle hinge holes). External North wall now exposed internally showing original pegged rafter housings of former queen post roof.
Documentary evidence given in Reaney's "Place Names of Essex". Fridays is probably to be associated with the family of Richard Ffriday (1285 Ass).
Listing NGR: TL6566912995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429153
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reaney, PH, Place names of Essex, (1935)
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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