Highwoods Farmhouse
HIGHWOODS FARMHOUSE, RUSSELL'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305922
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highwoods Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHWOODS FARMHOUSE, RUSSELL'S ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-10-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/05845/15
- Rights:
- © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305922
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highwoods Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHWOODS FARMHOUSE, RUSSELL'S 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:
- HIGHWOODS FARMHOUSE, RUSSELL'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79462 29626
Details
TL 72 NE GREENSTEAD GREEN AND RUSSELL'S ROAD HALSTEAD RURAL (south-west side)
4/155 Highwoods Farmhouse
- II
House. Cl6, altered in C17/18, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C16 3-bay crosswing of parallelogram plan aligned N-S (entrance elevation to N) with 2 external stacks to left. C17/18 wing to right (on site of former open hall) with Cl7 internal stack at the junction, and C20 extension beyond. Lean-to extension in front right angle, forming a catslide with the crosswing. Large C20 extensions of 2 and one storeys to rear right. 2 storeys. In crosswing, one-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights. To right of it, 2-window range of C20 casements. C20 door in catslide extension. Additional C20 door in recessed porch in right return. The C16 crosswing has chamfered axial beams with step stops, plain joists of horizontal section, some jowled storey posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in both wallplates, clasped purlin roof. An original ground-floor partition between the 2 front bays has been removed. Groove for sliding shutter in rear wall. Brick base of bread oven behind internal stack, oven demolished. Wide wood-burning hearth facing to left, C20 grate to right.
Listing NGR: TL7946229626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115993
- 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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