Mill Barn Farmhouse

MILL BARN FARMHOUSE, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1322624
Date first listed:
06-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Mill Barn Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
MILL BARN FARMHOUSE, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1322624
Date first listed:
06-Aug-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Mill Barn Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
MILL BARN FARMHOUSE, MILL LANE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL BARN FARMHOUSE, MILL LANE

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 17745 22162

Details

THORPE-LE-SOKEN MILL LANE TM 1622-1722 (west side) 8/101 Mill Barn Farmhouse, 6.8.85 formerly listed as End Cottage, The Cottage, Earlmead and Mill Cottage

- II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Earlsmead and Mil Cottage. Farmhouse, converted and extended to form 4 cottages, now combined. C18 and C19. Mainly of painted brick in various bonds, roofed with mixed red and blue handmade clay tiles, some pantiles and slate. Complex plan comprising (1) main range facing SE, with internal stack at right end and rear stack at left end, and outshut with catslide roof to rear (formerly The Cottage and End Cottage), (2) at left end, wing extending forwards, with external stack in front (formerly Earlsmead), (3) wing to rear of it, with gambrel roof, (4) wing to left with gambrel roof, stack at right end, and early C20 extensions to left and front (formerly Mill Cottage), (5) parallel range to rear of (4) with rear stack, and C20 lean-to extension with felted roof to rear. One storey with attics. Scattered fenestration, C19 and C20. 4 C20 doors. At the time of survey, September 1985, this group of cottages was being combined and renovated. Named after Thorpe Little Mill, c.1820, of which only the roundhouse remains, opposite.

Listing NGR: TM1774522162

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
120330
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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