OLD TIMBERS

OLD TIMBERS, LOWER GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306825
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: OLD TIMBERS
Statutory Address:: OLD TIMBERS, LOWER GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306825
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: OLD TIMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD TIMBERS, LOWER GREEN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD TIMBERS, LOWER GREEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Wethersfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 73773 31504

Details

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD LOWER GREEN ROAD (east side)

1/190 Old Timbers

GV II

House. C16 or earlier, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing SE with inserted stack in left bay against rear wall, and parlour/solar bay to right. To left, 2-bay crosswing, c.1570, with axial stack at rear, extended to rear by one bay. Single-storey crosswing to right of main range, 1982. Hall range of one storey with attics, left crosswing of 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 C20 casements. First floor, 2 more, of which one is in a gabled dormer. C20 door at front of C20 porch. The hall range is much altered, not clearly datable but probably early Cl6. It has jowled posts, heavy studding, and a blocked plain doorway from the hall to the parlour. The hall has a late C16 inserted floor comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. The rafters are trenched for high collars, whether for a crownpost roof or simple collar-rafter roof. Smoke-blackening survives at the left end, on the present staircase. The left crosswing has jowled posts, an unglazed window with 2 diamond mullions in the right side, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the left wallplate, and a clasped purlin roof with high collars and arched wind-bracing. This combination of features makes a close dating of 1565-1580 possible (J. McCann, The Introduction of the Lamb's Tongue Stop, Historic Buildings in Essex 2, 1985).

Listing NGR: TL7377331504

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Legacy System number:: 115702
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Historic Buildings in Essex' in Historic Buildings in Essex, , Vol. 2, (1985)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.