Ashdon and Homeleigh

ASHDON, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308410
Date first listed:
07-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Ashdon and Homeleigh
Statutory Address:
ASHDON, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308410
Date first listed:
07-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Ashdon and Homeleigh
Statutory Address 1:
ASHDON, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
HOMELEIGH, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ASHDON, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
HOMELEIGH, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Essex
District:
Tendring (District Authority)
Parish:
Thorpe-le-Soken
National Grid Reference:
TM1778122429

Details

THORPE-LE-SOKEN
TM 1622-1722
8/87
7.5.85
HIGH STREET
(south-west side)

Ashdon and Homeleigh
(Tendring Estates)

GV
II

House, now office and 2 houses. Circa 1600, altered in C19 and C20. Timber
framed, partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, partly plastered, roofed
with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing NE with central stack, forming a
lobby-entrance, and rear wing, forming an irregular T-plan. C19 2-storey
lean-to extension in right rear angle. Stair tower to rear of left end, and C20
2-storey extension beyond. Small C20 flat-roofed single-storey extension
between rear wings. 2 storeys and attics. 5-window range of late C19 sashes of
4 lights in earlier apertures with flat brick arches. Central door of 6 fielded
panels with early C19 fluted architrave and moulded flat canopy. At left end of
front elevation, early C19 flush 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, with
similar but smaller architrave and canopy. In left ground floor room (now an
office), chamfered transverse and axial beams with broach stops, joists
plastered to the soffits, and wide wood-burning hearth with chamfered mantel
beam, reduced. Oak panelling reported to be modern in this room behind present
wall surfaces. Remainder of interior mainly concealed by modern finishes.


Listing NGR: TM1778122429

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
120316
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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