The Abbey
THE ABBEY, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322618
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- THE ABBEY, ABBEY STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-05-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/13521/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322618
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ABBEY, ABBEY STREET
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 ABBEY, ABBEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 18064 22286
Details
THORPE-LE-SOKEN ABBEY STREET TM 1822-1922 (north side) 9/75 The Abbey 29.4.52 GV II*
House. Mid-C16, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed and brick, mainly plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range facing SW, with an internal stack at each end, of 2 storeys and attics, and 2-storey porch of plastered brick to centre front. Complex series of C18 and C19 2-storey rear extensions, the whole forming an approximately square plan. Ground floor, 2 C18 splayed bays of casements, altered in C20, with dentilled cornices. First floor, 2 C18 3-light casements with rectangular leading, altered in C20. 6-panel door with panelled reveals and fanlight, inside 2-storey porch with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet. The outer archway has jambs and 4-centred arch chamfered in 2 orders, with a moulded label, and attached shafts with moulded bases and capitals. At each side is a segmental arch chamfered in 2 orders. On the first floor is an original window of 2 round-headed lights with hollow-chamfered jambs and semi-circular arch, the mullion removed, converted to an C18 2-light window with one wrought iron casement and rectangular leading. Truncated diagonal pinnacle. The left stack has 2 diagonal shafts. The right stack has 2 octagonal shafts with a recessed panel at the side. The right return is of plastered brick with a crow-stepped gable. The left return has on the first floor 3 C18 3-light windows each with a wrought iron casement. Modern wrought iron sign with date 1583. Jowled posts, close studding. Underbuilt jetty at front. Richly carved beams, in various foliate patterns; the rear side of the right axial beam is of spiral-leaf pattern with an unusual branched stem throughout. Chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops. Original carved beams above first floor. In the right first-floor room one jowl is carved to form a cowled head, defaced. Side-purlin roof, only partly visible. RCHM 3. First recorded in 1567 as Borowes; then as Gadlers in 1612, Brickhouse in 1690, Cage Farm in 1779, probably named The Abbey in 1795 (E.A. Wood, A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890, 1975, 152-3).
Listing NGR: TM1806422286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, E A, A History of Thorpe le Soken to the Year 1890, (1975), 152-3
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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