Tinker's Green Farmhouse

TINKER'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1318920
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Tinker's Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TINKER'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN ROAD

Have you got a photo to share?

Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
2002-07-15
Reference:
IOE01/07269/14
Rights:
© Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1318920
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Tinker's Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TINKER'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN 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.

Understanding list entries

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TINKER'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, TINKERS GREEN ROAD

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Finchingfield
National Grid Reference:
TL 66936 36355

Details

TL 63 NE FINCHINGFIELD TINKER'S GREEN ROAD (north side)

1/90 Tinker's Green Farmhouse

- II

House. Late C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SE, with axial stack in middle bay. Single-storey wing to left, of similar date. C20 extension to rear of right end. One storey with attics. 3 C20 casements, 2 more in gabled dormers. The right dormer has the date 1663 inscribed in the plaster, which may relate to the insertion of the dormer. C20 door. Grouped diagonal shafts, rebuilt. The interior has jowled posts, exposed heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the inside, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the front wallplate. Both floors are on pegged clamps, but are original, although slightly raised. The floor of the left bay has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, supported at the left end on an original jowl with decorative serrated lower border, and plain joists of horizontal section. In the rear wall is an original window with 3 ovolo mullions and 4 saddle bars, now enclosed by the C20 exten- sion. The main hearth, partly rebricked, has an original salt or spice cupboard with pivoted door having a decorative inscribed design of lozenge pattern. There are a number of early doors, including one on the first floor of moulded oak planks, early C17 or original, and a 3-plank door on the ground floor. The timber structure indicates that this house was built as a lobby- entrance plan facing NW towards Tinker's Green, and the surviving window would have then been at the front. Wall bracing SE of the central stack shows that the present stair is in the position of the original stair, and that there was never a doorway here. At some later time, probably when the Green was enclosed, the house has been reversed to face SE. RCHM 34. The decorative jowl is similar to one at Street Farmhouse, 7/10, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL6693636355

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
115232
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Tinker's Green Farmhouse

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 03-Jul-2026 at 23:23:03.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos