The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, OWLS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1308470
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, OWLS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1308470
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, OWLS HILL
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:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, OWLS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Terling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77023 15050
Details
TL 7615 and 7715 TERLING OWL'S HILL (south side)
8/147 and 9/147 The Old Vicarage
GV II*
House. C14/C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned NE-SW, facing NE, with C19 central stack. Single-storey extension to left, c.1974. 2 storeys. NE elevation, one C20 casement on each floor, and in attic gable an original 2-light window with wooden tracery, each light cinquefoiled with 2 trefoils above, originally unglazed, now glazed on the outside. Jetty with exposed joists of horizontal section, 2 plain brackets, and a mortice for a third. C20 door in left extension. The rear bay of the roof has a hipped gablet. The interior is mainly plastered, but all the visible posts are deeply chamfered. In the SE side is a roll-moulded arch, only partly visible, apparently of an original window. Immediately to rear of it there are indications of a former cross-entry. The C19 inserted stack has C20 grates at front and back. On the upper floor chamfered arched braces rise to the front internal tiebeam. A re-located bracket supports an early C17 framed ceiling, with plain joists of horizontal section. The roof is of crownpost construction, almost complete. The front crownpost is of cross-quadrate section with wide 4-way arched braces of which one has been severed for the inserted stack. The rear crownpost is plain with wide axial arched braces, and down-braces to the tiebeam, trenched into the studs of an original partition. Original hip. The front crown stud forms the central mullion of the gable window, rebated with step stops, and the wooden tracery is nailed to it. This is a small house of high quality, possibly for a priest. Tenements 'in which the parish clerk now lives', rent 4s. p.a., and 'in which John Brian the chaplain now lives', rent 6s 8d. p.a., are mentioned in a rental of 1475 (Essex Record Office, D/M, M.169). RCHM 14.
Listing NGR: TL7702315050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115495
- 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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