ANCELLS IN THE HOLE

ANCELLS IN THE HOLE, BRAINTREE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308418
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: ANCELLS IN THE HOLE
Statutory Address:: ANCELLS IN THE HOLE, BRAINTREE ROAD

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Date:: 2002-08-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308418
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: ANCELLS IN THE HOLE
Statutory Address 1:: ANCELLS IN THE HOLE, BRAINTREE 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:: ANCELLS IN THE HOLE, BRAINTREE ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Shalford
National Grid Reference:: TL 73277 28074

Details

TL 72 NW SHALFORD BRAINTREE ROAD (east side)

3/47 Ancells in the Hole (formerly listed as Ancel 21.12.67 Hole)

- II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Tan Office Farm. House. C16, altered in C18/C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slate. 2-bay main range facing NE, mid-C16. 3-bay crosswing at left end, extending to rear, and internal stack at the junction, c.1570. Small extension to rear of right bay of main range, C18, and C19 extension with slate roof between this and crosswing. Single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof at W corner. 2 storeys, cellar and attic. 3-window range of C20 casements, with small feature gables above 2 upper windows. 6-panel door with top panels glazed and bottom panels boarded, early C19. The main stack has a quatrefoiled recess in moulded brick at the base, and rebuilt grouped diagonal shafts. In the left return wall, on the upper storey there are 2 unglazed windows converted for glazing in the period 1570-90, features of exceptional historical interest. Jowled posts, heavy studding. Curved tension bracing trenched inside studs, exposed in crosswing. Unglazed windows with shutter grooves and mortices for diamond mullions in both builds, in the crosswing adapted for the early glazed windows described above. Chamfered axial beams, with step stops in the main range, lamb's tongue stops and notch stops in the crosswing. 2 large wood-burning hearths on the ground floor, and early C17 hearth with depressed brick arch on the first floor of the main range. Crownpost roof with axial braces in main range, clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing in crosswing. Wall painting on plaster and studs of left ground floor room of main range depicting woman in Elizabethan costume, probably Queen Elizabeth I. Reported wall painting in room above, panelled over in C20. RCHM 35.

Listing NGR: TL7327728074

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Legacy System number:: 115566
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.