Waterhales Farmhouse
WATERHALES FARMHOUSE, HORSEMAN SIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293123
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Waterhales Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WATERHALES FARMHOUSE, HORSEMAN SIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293123
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Waterhales Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERHALES FARMHOUSE, HORSEMAN SIDE
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:
- WATERHALES FARMHOUSE, HORSEMAN SIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Navestock
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53874 95663
Details
NAVESTOCK
TQ59NW HORSEMAN SIDE 723-1/4/496 (North side) 20/02/76 Waterhales Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD HORSEMAN SIDE, Navestock Waterhale Farmhouse)
GV II
House. C16, late C17 and c1800. Timber-framed and rendered with peg-tiled roof. 2 storey, 2 window range. C20 replacement sashes with glazing bars and horns. Pillared porch with panelled door and side lights. INTERIOR: S gabled block facing E mid-C16 high end cross-wing of good quality with heavy flat laid joists (diminished haunched soffit tenons and stepped chamfer stops) and jetty now underbuilt. Doorway leading to former hall has flat 4-centred arched head and rolls and cavetto mouldings. Mortice and wattle holes in door jamb for draught screen protecting high end of hall. Large stair trap at rear of block. Apertures for 2 large projecting windows on both storeys of jettied front (shutter groove upstairs ). Internal tension bracing and halved and bridled scarfs. Prominent stack flanking S wall has tumbled offsets externally and fireplaces on both floors of rebuilt Tudor brick (English bond). Upper chamber has inserted cambered ceiling of later C16 with bridging joists with multiple roll mouldings and smaller mullioned window at rear W end. To W is late C17 timber-framed extension containing stair. Strong basic framing with primary bracing. To N late C17 block replacing earlier hall with framing as W addition and present front door (C20). C17 Brick stack to N. Brick built block filling NW angle c1800 with dentils at eaves, much restored. C20 sash windows and door. Trenches in garden have revealed brick foundations of hall house extending to N. Waterhales Farmhouse forms a group with the barn (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ5387495663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373773
- 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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