Ashes Farmhouse
ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306959
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ashes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306959
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ashes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES 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:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES ROAD
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 78976 21208
Details
CRESSING ASHES ROAD TL 72 SE (north-east side)
1/37 Ashes Farmhouse
GV II
House. C16 or earlier, extended in C19. Partly timber framed, partly of brick, mainly roughcast rendered with some weatherboarding, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay crosswing aligned NE-SW with C19 central stack, of a hall house which formerly extended to the NW. Large C19 T-shaped extension to NW, forming a central range and second crosswing, with internal stack at the junction. Facing SW. 2 storeys. 4-window range of mid-C19 sashes of 4 lights. C19 half-glazed door in gabled porch. Both crosswings project about 0.25 metre forward of the central range, but the roof of the original right crosswing is approx. 0.60 metre below the remainder. This crosswing has an underbuilt jetty and deeply chamfered wallplates with step stops. Most of the frame is concealed by modern finishes, but one stud is exposed internally on the upper storey of the right wall, and pegging in the wallplates indicates the positions of other studs. Roof rebuilt in clasped purlin form in C17.
Listing NGR: TL7897621208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116363
- 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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