GRAY'S FARMHOUSE
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: GRAY'S FARMHOUSE
List entry Number: 1306273
Location
GRAY'S FARMHOUSE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Essex
District: Chelmsford
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Chignall
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 29-Dec-1952
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 112474
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
1. CHIGNAL
5231
Gray's Farmhouse
TL 61 SE 4/59 29.12.52.
II
2.
Originally a C15-C16 moated hall house with cross wings on the east and west ends.
It was altered in the C17 when the centre block was raised and divided into 2 storeys
and again in the mid C18. Alterations-and renovations in 1952 destroyed the date tablets in the gables of the cross wings which had the initials WL and the date
1743. A timber framed and plastered building. 2 storeys and attics. The crosswings
are jettied on the upper storey. 4 window range, C20 metal casekents with glazing
bars. 2 C20 doors, with cornice hoods. Roof tiled, with 1 hipped dormer in the
centre block. There are fragmentary remains of the moat. (RCHM 7).
Listing NGR: TL6774910742
Selected Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
National Grid Reference: TL 67749 10742
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