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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Date:: 2002-11-03
Reference:: IOE01/00874/10
Rights:: © Mr G.S. Allbright. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 118562
Legacy System:: LBS

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An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)

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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.