Dairyley Farmhouse
DAIRYLEY FARMHOUSE, SPAINS HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329949
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Dairyley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DAIRYLEY FARMHOUSE, SPAINS HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329949
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dairyley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAIRYLEY FARMHOUSE, SPAINS HALL 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.
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:
- DAIRYLEY FARMHOUSE, SPAINS HALL 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 67550 33745
Details
TL 63 SE FINCHINGFIELD SPAINS HALL ROAD (west side)
3/77 Dairyley Farmhouse (formerly listed as 21.12.67 Dairielay Farmhouse under Outlying Items)
- II
Wrongly shown on OS map as Dairy Farm. House. Circa 1600, altered in Cl8 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. L-plan, with wings extending to NW and NE, with one axial stack in each wing. C18 extension in angle. 2 storeys. SW elevation, 3-window range of C20 casements. 6-panel door with top panels glazed, in early C19 simple doorcase with shallow hood on scrolled brackets. Also one C20 half-glazed door. Complete set of original sprockets below eaves. The interior has jowled posts, curved bracing trenched inside studs, axial and transverse chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. The plain joists of the NW bay are of horizontal section, in the next bay to the SE of vertical section. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates Primary straight bracing in C18 extension. RCHM 33.
Listing NGR: TL6755033745
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115219
- 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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