Great Wasketh Farmhouse
GREAT WASKETH FARMHOUSE, GARDINERS LANE NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275884
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Wasketh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT WASKETH FARMHOUSE, GARDINERS LANE NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275884
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Wasketh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT WASKETH FARMHOUSE, GARDINERS LANE NORTH
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 WASKETH FARMHOUSE, GARDINERS LANE NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Basildon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsden Crays
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71964 91147
Details
THE FOLLOWING ITEM SHALL BE ADDED
1. 5209 TO 79 SW 3/144 GARDINERS LANE NORTH (west side) BASILDON II Great Wasketh Farmhouse 2. Farmhouse. C15 origins to rear wing on left; mid/late C17 wing to right; front built c.1840. Front block built of brick with stucco facing; hipped Welsd slate roof. Rear ranges of render over timber frame; gabled concrete tile roofs; brick stacks. Front block of central-staircase plan, with parallel range to rear left of C15 origins and mid/late C17 cross wing added to right. Front elevation, c.1840, of 2-storey, symmetrical 3-window range. C20 glazed door with overlight set in panelled reveals with pilasters to bracketed architrave. Mid C19 horned 6-pane sashes set in moulded wood architraves; continuous verandah has fluted cast-iron colums with foliate capitals and bases; deep eaves. Rear range: cross wing to right has early C19 sixteen-pane sash over mid C19 horned 12-pane sash, and early C19 twenty-four pane sash to rear; mid C19 outshut to left; rear wall of left-hand range has early C20 casements with glazing bars and early C19 four-light casement with leaded lights to first floor. Interior: front range has panelled doors; dog-leg with winders staircase with stick balusters and turned newels; cast-iron fireplace to first floor on right. Rear left range; large C17 beam against left-end wall, chamfered transverse beam and chamfered joists; close studding to partition wall; C19 partitions, one with leaded light to former buttery/pantry. First floor has chamfered tie beam to left, 2 chamfered beams to centre, late C17 panelled door with H-hinges, and timber-framed transverse partition to right (against cross wing). Cross wing to right has chamfered beams to both floor, C19 square-headed fireplace set in moulded wood architrave on ground floor and C19 cupboard doors on first floor. The former "open hall" in tile rear left wing had an end wall of interrupted tie beam type and was raised to 2-storeys in the Cl7. Subsidiary features early C19 brewhouse to rear, of render over timber frame with gambrel concrete tile roof. One storey. C19 plank door set in beaded frame and C20 casement; canted roof dormer with C20 casement. Interior: large brick fireplace with wood bressummer over open fireplace, flanked by coppers. Half of interior is open to left, and has a chamfered beam to former apple loft at one end.
Listing NGR: TQ7196491147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112418
- 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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