SPRING FARMHOUSE

SPRING FARMHOUSE, TOLLESBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328221
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: SPRING FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SPRING FARMHOUSE, TOLLESBURY ROAD

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Date:: 2005-04-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328221
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: SPRING FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SPRING FARMHOUSE, TOLLESBURY 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:: SPRING FARMHOUSE, TOLLESBURY ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Maldon (District Authority)
Parish:: Tolleshunt D'arcy
National Grid Reference:: TL9322511734

Details

TL 9211-9311 7/85

TOLLESHUNT D'ARCY, TOLLESBURY ROAD (north side), Spring Farmhouse

II

House, c.1500, and cottage, C18, now joined. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. House comprising 2-bay hall aligned approx. N-S with axial stack, c.1600, in S bay, parlour/solar bay to N, service bay to S. At NW corner, cottage of 2 bays aligned approx. E-W, with axial stack at W end, and C19 extension of plastered brick beyond, and small single-storey extension to S. C20 single-storey extension linking house to cottage. Mainly one storey with attics, C19 brick extension of 2 storeys. W elevation of house, 3 C20 casements and 2 more in gabled dormers. C2U door in angle between the buildings. The house has jowled posts, heavy studding, some wattle and daub infill. The hall has display bracing and a blocked plain doorway to the parlour, an inserted floor, an axial beam and pegged clamps. The central tiebeam and arched braces to it are missing. A doorway has been framed through the tiebeam to the solar at an early date. The hearth inserted c.1600 is of 0.33 metre brickwork, the mantel beam having mitred stops. The floor of the service end is of transverse plain joists of horizontal section, supported on pegged clamps and an axial beam with mortices for a removed partition. The service bay retains the original crownpost roof; to N of it the roof has been rebuilt, re-using some medieval smoke-blackened rafters. The cottage is of lighter framing, with unjowled posts and primary straight bracing exposed internally. RCHM 4.

Listing NGR: TL9322511734

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Legacy System number:: 353197
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)

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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.