Dukes House
DUKES HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264894
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dukes House
- Statutory Address:
- DUKES HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264894
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dukes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUKES HOUSE, THE 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:
- DUKES HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Roxwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 64436 08692
Details
1. ROXWELL THE STREET 5213 (East Side) ROXWELL Dukes House TL 6408 26/445 29.12.52.
II 2. A manor house on this site is mentioned in Doomsday Book. The present house was built in the Cl6 and was altered and added to in 1666 by Thomas Arthur Crush. It is said that the workers on the roof saw the Great Fire of London. There are cross wings on the north and south ends and Cl7 gabled additions on the west side. The east side is almost completely altered, with C2O fenestration and sham timber- framing. The house retains its original shape and is picturesque. 2 storeys and attics. The windows are C20 casements with leaded lights. Roof tiled. The chief external features are the 3 fine original chinmey stacks, each with 3 octagonal shafts on a rectangular base with a deep band of moulded brick quatrefoil ornamentation. 2 of the stacks have spurred caps and another stack is rebuilt in facsimile. (RCHM 17).
Listing NGR: TL6443608692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
Domesday Book, ()
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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