Sewards End Farmhouse
SEWARDS END FARMHOUSE, REDGATES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297742
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Sewards End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SEWARDS END FARMHOUSE, REDGATES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297742
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Sewards End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEWARDS END FARMHOUSE, REDGATES LANE
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:
- SEWARDS END FARMHOUSE, REDGATES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sewards End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 57111 38536
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL53NE REDGATES LANE, Sewards End 669-1/4/383 No.13 17/06/82 Sewards End Farmhouse
II
House. C17 with C19 additions, refaced in 1948. Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, peg-tiled roofs. Plan rectangular. 2 storeys and attic and cellars. Front S elevation: twin gables with rebuilt cruciform stack between and central projecting front doorway. Brick faced, shaped barge-boards to gables and porch. 2 window range, all 1948. 3-light casements with transoms 3x4 panes in all. Doorway has moulded architrave, overlight, moulded 4 panel door. Stack set low between gables, flank of gable to E at E end. Rear N elevation: twin gables as front, timber-framed and plastered above brick base. Central C19 stacks to each, E one exterior. 4 scattered windows, 1 ground floor metal framed C19 with 3 lancet heads, one sliding sash window on first floor, single attic window to each gable. W side elevation: S end brick as on front with contemporary 3-cant ground floor bay window. To N, plastered framing over brick base, 3 window first floor range of C19 sliding sashes plus 2-light casement window inserted. Ground floor, 2 doors, one 3-light sliding sash window with inserted 2-light casement, simple long 4-light window, cellar hatch door. E side elevation: front unit of house projects as gabled wing, brick faced. N return wall timber-framed and plastered, range to N also bricked, scattered casement windows mainly from refurbishment. Central ridge stack with hipped dormer window in line. 2-light casement. Single boarded door. N end gable stack visible. INTERIOR: not inspected but house appears to have begun as a 2-celled lobby entrance building re-aligned in C19 at right angles as 2 parallel ranges. Front elevation wall was plastered framing up to 1948.
Listing NGR: TL5711138536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370717
- 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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