Rook Hall Farmhouse
ROOK HALL FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306803
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rook Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOK HALL FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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- 2001-07-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/03067/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306803
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rook Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOK HALL FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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:
- ROOK HALL FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cressing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79238 20634
Details
CRESSING THE STREET TL 72 SE (west side)
1/63 Rook Hall Farmhouse 21.12.67
GV II
House. C16 to C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing NE, with central stack forming a lobby-entrance. Rear range surviving from part of a late medieval house, forming a T-plan. Small single-storey extension to right. Rear extensions of various dates. 2 storeys and attics. 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights on each floor, and one C18 sash of 12 lights over door. Crown glass. Central double doors each with 3 fielded panels, plastered doorcase with rusticated jambs, pulvinated frieze and moulded and dentilled pediment. Elevation slightly asymmetrical. 4 square shafts with ovolo-moulded cornice emerge from roof, becoming octagonal above cornice, with spiked caps, restored. The main range has jowled posts, straight bracing at first floor only, interrupting the studding. 2 main studs in each long bay, enclosing the windows. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. Straight tiebeams. One extra tiebeam and pair of principal rafters in each long bay. Clasped purlin roof with near-straight wind bracing. The rear wing comprises the service bay of a late medieval house, and one bay containing a newel stair. An incomplete carved inscription on the front girt of the right bay of the main range has the numerals 75 and 3 initials, suggesting a marriage in 1575; the initials have not proved to be identifiable, as the parish registers for the appropriate period have not survived. Structural features of this range would be compatible with a date of circa 1600 or in the early C17. (C.A. Hewett, English Historic Carpentry, 1980, 225-6 and 269). RCHM 7.
Listing NGR: TL7923820634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewett, C A, English Historic Carpentry, (1980), 225-6,269
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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