Wyldingtree Farmhouse

WYLDINGTREE FARMHOUSE, WEALD BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1337225
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:
Wyldingtree Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WYLDINGTREE FARMHOUSE, WEALD BRIDGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1337225
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:
Wyldingtree Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WYLDINGTREE FARMHOUSE, WEALD BRIDGE 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.

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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:
WYLDINGTREE FARMHOUSE, WEALD BRIDGE ROAD

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

County:
Essex
District:
Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
North Weald Bassett
National Grid Reference:
TL 50973 06004

Details

TL 50 NW NORTH WEALD BASSETT WEALD BRIDGE ROAD 5/41 Wyldingtree Farmhouse

GV II

Large lobby-entrance house, c.1600, with C16 wing, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, partly plastered, but mainly encased in late C19 brickwork, red with blue bands, Flemish bond, roofed with C19 red clay tiles. Aligned approximately E-W, aspect N, with central chimneystack of 6 hearths and chimney stack at W end. C16 crosswing of earlier house to W, and W wing forming an L plan. Late C19 extension to rear of this, with end chimney stack. Large late C19 extension to rear of central chimney stack, with 2 external chimney stacks on E wall. Single storey lean-to extension between this and C16 crosswing, C20. 2 storeys and attics in lobby-entrance house, 2 storeys in section to W. N elevation of lobby-entrance house, 6 panel door with upper 2 glazed in doorcase with 2 engaged Doric columns and open pediment. Late C19 bay windows to each side. 3 late C19 casement windows on first floor and one small C20 casement window. Elevation of red brick, Flemish bond, with bands of blue bricks. 6 grouped octagonal shafts on main chimney stack. W section has a plastered elevation, central door and 2 casement windows on each floor, all C20. In lobby-entrance house, plain chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists unchamfered where exposed, above ground andfirst floors. On first floor, 2 hearths with depressed brick arches and moulded lintels, with original plaster to W of stack, stripped to brickwork E of stack. In C16 W crosswing, one plain- chamfered beam with a single step stop surviving, unglazed window on first floor with diamond mullions in situ, now in an internal wall. The W house is the earlier of the two, but is extensively altered, probably used as service accommodation since the C17. The lobby-entrance house, though of Victorian appearance externally, is substantially in its original form, an exceptionally large example of its kind.

Listing NGR: TL5097306004

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
118237
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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