ROOS FARMHOUSE

ROOS FARMHOUSE, DEBDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280593
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: ROOS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: ROOS FARMHOUSE, DEBDEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280593
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: ROOS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ROOS FARMHOUSE, DEBDEN ROAD

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:: ROOS FARMHOUSE, DEBDEN ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 54813 36071

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW DEBDEN ROAD 669-1/3/134 Roos Farmhouse 28/11/51

GV II

House. Mid C16 with C18 extensions and C19 wings. Timber-framed and plastered, brick, peg and clay tiled roofs. Plan of approx T form. 2 storeys attics and cellars. Front N elevation: long house range with slighter half hip roofed extension at W end, fan-combed panel pargetting c1900. Large triple square shafted stack at junction of units, second stack towards E end. Main block, 4 window range, first floor, three 3-light sash window, 6x4 panes, one fixed window 2x4 panes. Ground floor porch and bay window dividing elevation into thirds. Porch c1900, brick with projecting gable plate brackets and gable struts, door contemporary of 4 moulded panels. Bay window has peg-tiled hipped roof, 1:4:1 lights with transom, each light a sash 2x5 panes. Central fixed window 2x4 panes. 3-light window as those on first floor at E end, 2 cellar lights at E end. W extension - long 8-light `frieze' window, pantry window half gauze plus casement with early C19 lozenge pattern glazing bars. Rear S elevation: similar to front but principal range has 2 mid C19 brick and flint cobble wings with shaped barge-boards projecting S, larger central, lesser to E. Larger has ground floor bay window, hipped roof, 1:4:1, transomed sash window, 1x8, 8x8, 1x8 panes. First floor, 3-light sash window, label, 6x6 panes. Large triple shaft stack rises through W roof pitch with roll moulded cornices. Other 2 stacks of house similarly rebuilt. Lesser wing single central stair `cross' window, sashes, 4x8 panes in all. Principal range windows scattered, 2 C19 doors, one between wings with upper glazing, one in line with principal stack of 4 flush panels. Adjacent C19 casement window with lozenge glazing bars, similar to one on N front. W extension has rear slated lean-to with catslide roof. Two 3-light C20 casement windows, one metal, small ancillary mid C19 brick addition with stack round SW corner. E end elevation: gable end of main range and sides of flint wings clear. Lesser wing has 2-storey shallow lean-to roof as catslide, single upper window, principal block C19 single 2x4 paned ground floor casement window. 2-light window to attic 4x4 panes. W end elevation: timber-framed and pargetted, half hip gabled end, wall plates project. Attic 3-light window 6x4 panes, C19 red brick addition to SW corner, cement tiled with ridge stack. INTERIOR: central timber-framed block, C16 with jowled posts and heavy cambered tie-beams, principal rafters of side purlin roof. Step-stopped chamfers to principal members. Floor joists have diminished haunched tenons. Trusses clasp stack within `chimney bay'. Evidence of former existence of wide arched entrance on S side W of stack. Both E and W ends extended in C19 in timber framing. Mid C19 well stair complete in stair wing. 2 inter-connecting cellars, brick walls and floors. RCHM recorded a piece of early C17 panelled door which is still in situ.

Listing NGR: TL5481336071

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Legacy System number:: 370515
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.