The Gables
THE GABLES, VINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325945
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, VINE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04252/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325945
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES, VINE 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 GABLES, VINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67585 30606
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD VINE STREET (north-west side)
8/201 The Gables 21.12.67
GV II
House. C14, altered in C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Short hall range of one or 2 bays facing SE, two 2-bay crosswings. Internal stack at rear of left crosswing, axial stack at junction of hall and right crosswing. C20 rear extensions. 2 storeys. 3-window range of C20 casements. C20 door, and garage doors in right crosswing. Small jetty at left side, not part of the original structure. The interior has jowled posts, some exposed studding. Originally both crosswings were jettied to the front, now underbuilt, and the front wall of the hall range has been rebuilt to align with the underbuilt jetties. Inserted floor in'hall range with richly moulded beams, early C16. Rear wall of hall raised by approx. one metre and roof rebuilt in C17. Timbers on left side of right crosswing are soot-encrusted under paint. Right crosswing has cambered tiebeam with one brace of wide section, and complete crownpost roof with axial braces of wide section. Left crosswing has cambered tiebeam with 2 arched braces, roof originally of crownpost construction but rebuilt above tiebeam. RCHM 33.
Listing NGR: TL6758530606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115340
- 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.
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