Watton Farmhouse

WATTON FARMHOUSE, HORSEMAN SIDE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297174
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:
Watton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WATTON FARMHOUSE, HORSEMAN SIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297174
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Watton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WATTON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WATTON 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:
TQ5311995210

Details

NAVESTOCK

TQ59NW HORSEMAN SIDE
723-1/4/498 (North side)
20/02/76 Watton Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
WATTON'S GREEN, NAVESTOCK SIDE
Navestock
Watton Farmhouse)

GV II

House. Late C17 and late C18/ early C19. Timber-framed and
weatherboarded with ground floor in red brick, Flemish bond.
Roof peg-tiled. 2 storeys and attic. 3 window range, sashes
with glazing bars. Central doorway with C20 flat canopy on
slender square pillars. 6 panel door, upper panels glazed,
flanked by crudely reeded pilasters. INTERIOR: the house is
2-celled with a central passage and stairs. Binding and
bridging joists confirm this plan to be original though the
partitioning has been renewed. A large lateral stack at the
rear of the W bay has a large cooking hearth on the ground
floor and chamber fireplace above. The W side has a more
recent stack and C20 outshuts have been added at the back.


Listing NGR: TQ5311995210

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
373775
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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