Harsnetts
HARSNETTS, HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317380
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Harsnetts
- Statutory Address:
- HARSNETTS, HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317380
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Harsnetts
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARSNETTS, HIGH 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:
- HARSNETTS, HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chigwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ4416193807
Details
TQ 49 SW
4/18
28.6.54
CHIGWELL
HIGH ROAD,
EAST SIDE
Harsnetts
GV
II
Lobby-entrance house, c.1600, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, mainly
roughcast rendered with some weatherboarding, roofed with handmade red clay
tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. NE-SW, aspect NW, with axial chimney stack in
third bay from NE end, forming a lobby-entrance. External chimney stack at
NE end. Short extension to NE, C18, enclosing stack, and longer extension to
SW, C18. Single-storey extension beyond, C19. Original stair wing to rear
of main stack. Long rear extension, C19, and single-storey flat-roofed
extension in S angle, C20. 2 storeys. 2 6-panel flush doors in simple
doorcases, rectangular lights over with cast iron geometrical tracery, shallow
hoods, c.1800. 2-storey canted bay of 3 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights,
with pyramidal roof, c.1800, with some crown glass. 4 C20 reproductions of
C17 mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights; one plain boarded door
in C19 extension. First floor, windows as ground floor, with 2 additional
casement windows of the same type above doors. At rear, 3 C18 windows on first
floor, each with one wrought iron casement, all leaded. Axial beams above
ground floor rooms, boxed in. Jowled posts, front wallplate visible, plain-
chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, edge-halved and bridled scarf. Original
newel stair with bobbin-turned balusters at the top. The building was bought
by Archbishop Harsnett in 1627 from John Penington, probably as a house for
the master of the English School. The former occupier was Alexander Stowell,
a glover. The name Harsnetts was given to it in error when it became a boarding
house for small boys, in the mistaken belief that it had been the house of the
founder of the School (Stott, 19, 20, 26, 111). RCHM 8.
Listing NGR: TQ4416193807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118562
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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