The Forge Farmhouse
THE FORGE FARMHOUSE, BURES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305882
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE FARMHOUSE, BURES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305882
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE FARMHOUSE, BURES ROAD
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:
- THE FORGE FARMHOUSE, BURES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- White Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88260 31388
Details
TL 83 SE WHITE COLNE BURES ROAD (west side)
3/174 The Forge Farmhouse
- II
House. Late C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered with weatherboarded dado, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4-bay lobby-entrance plan facing SE, with axial stack and C20 rear extension. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 C19 horizontal sashes of 8 lights and one C20 casement. 3 C20 casements in lean-to dormers. Plain boarded door with C20 rustic porch. Hipped gambrel roof. C18 chevron plaster in panels on front, incomplete. Over door, panel of plaster with stars and date 1661. Chamfered axial beams, plain joists of vertical section jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches.
Listing NGR: TL8826031388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116006
- 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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